extremely small Linux/BSD for NATsetup

L1011

I need to bridge a wireless network to an older wired network, and I want to do it on the cheap. I have a pallet (literally) of banjaxed Dell laptops, and I've managed to knock one good one out of it... or semi-good anyway. It seems to have 64MB RAM and a 4GB HDD, and I've got an Atml 11Mbit wireless card and a generic ne2000 nic for it.

Heres the killer - its got NO CD-ROM. I've got a floppy drive for it though

So is there a few floppy or install-by-net-from-floppy distro thats >100MB or so thats suited for packet flinging? Currently, I have a G4 iBook running Tiger doing a job, a total waste of resources...

bminish

Have you seen m0n0wall?
http://m0n0.ch/wall/

It might take a bit of juggling to get installed without a CD rom but it's small distro ~ (5 Mb)
it does Wireless and is a well featured firewall.

.Brendan

happydude13

if it's on the internet you can do a network install of debian.

and shorewall say...

http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst

Capt'n Midnight

stupid question

where can I find configs for a floppy router without NAT ?

Red Alert

OpenBsd sounds like the right tool here.

Sarunas

yeah, net install of openbsd (requires 2 floppy disks iirc).