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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!acs2.byu.edu!news.cuny.edu!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.maui.com!news From: Richard Puga <puga@maui.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: BSD Router Challenge! Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 20:10:06 +0000 Organization: Maui Research and Technology Center (MRTC) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <30BA1B1E.2781E494@maui.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: puga.mauibuilt.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) CC: danno, langfod I have BSD running on a 386sx/25.. Why? you ask.. well its sole purpose in life is to be a router which dials up a PPP account and routes traffic to an ethernet card and keeps the phone line up all day.... I started from a 200 + meg OS and trimed it down to 14 megs and have the whole thing running on a 4 meg machine with a 20 meg hard drive... What I want to do is get it to fit on a single floppy... Is this possible? what I need is a kernel with the math emulaotor ( unless there is another way) Toshiharu OHNO's PPP daemon, routed , serial ports for the modem and an ethernet driver for whatever ethernet card... The trickie part is to get rid of all the other stuff so I can fit it on a floppy.. you know like /usr... shells in general,.. password files most of /dev ECT.. If someone is willing to take this on I think it would be a way cool thing to have.. it would sure make use out of the old pc in the closet and is alott cheeper than a router for $800.00,,, Well If anyone can get this to work within 1.44 megs I would sure apreciate it if you would uuencode the entire os and e-mail it to me along with the file you used for the kernel build.... Thanks alott in advance... Richard Puga puga@maui.com puga@maui.com