Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:14:36 +1000 From: Glenn McGrath Subject: Re: Making my own floppy based router/firewall To: Harman Nagra Cc: luv@luv.asn.au On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:17:55 +1000 "Harman Nagra" wrote: > Hi Guys, > > This may sound out of my league but I wanna learn how to "make" my own > floppy based linux distro ( which will perform as a router/firewall), > eg. Coyotelinux. > > I did a bit of search on google but stil have not even the slightest > idea where I should start? > > This is purely for learning purpose. So any pointers, help would be > great. > Bootdisk HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/ Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Other than that you can have a look at how other mini-distros do it, of which there are quite a few. Glenn Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:04:20 +1000 From: Sam Varghese Subject: Re: Making my own floppy based router/firewall To: luv@luv.asn.au On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:00:16AM +1000, Shane Mattson wrote: > A worthy endeavour, but why stop at just a floppy? > > Check out the bootable business card (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/), a > CD-based distro which you can customise. Another single floppy distro is at http://rute.sourceforge.net/morecram-1.3.tar.gz The manual available at the main site also details in Chapter 17 what packages can be used to build a single floppy distribution. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 04:13:04 -0800 From: John Quirk Subject: Re: Making my own floppy based router/firewall To: Harman Nagra Cc: luv@luv.asn.au Harman Nagra wrote: >Hi Guys, > >This may sound out of my league but I wanna learn how to "make" my own >floppy based linux distro ( which will perform as a router/firewall), >eg. Coyotelinux. >I did a bit of search on google but stil have not even the slightest >idea where I should start? > http://www.toms.net/rb/ http://www.trustix.net/ http://www.freesco.org/ http://trinux.sourceforge.net/ also look at LDP's site for linux from scratch its a good source on howto create a distribution. most of theses distributions use a libary of tools called busybox http://www.busybox.net/ To generate these you need a big version of linux to create the system another option is http://www.devil-linux.org/ which is a CD rom version of what you want to do. Also you will need to consider how secure the basic kernel is so also look at http://www.lids.org/about.html http://www.grsecurity.net/ http://www.openwall.com/ Good luck with this as with opensource there is pleanty of information out there John Quirk