FreeSCO vs. SmoothWall

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:19 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:24 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
<snip>
> >>2) Is it simply a matter of copying the floppy image to a HD, or how
> >>involved is it to get this running somewhere other than the floppy?
> >
> > Don't know this either. I boot from floppy. Everything's on a RAM disk,
> > the only time it touches the floppy is to boot. The only time it boots is
> > after a power outage, (and after @Home went belly up). I've booted it
> > less than 10 times since orignally set up 2 years ago (yeah, our power
> > rarely goes out -- knock wood). I've got a copy of it's config on my hard
> > drive and an extra floppy as backup. What's wrong with booting from
> > floppy?
>
> I dunno.  I just thought that I'd have to reconfigure everything from
> scratch if i ever rebooted.  Is that not the case?

Nope. Once it's configured (and saved), you're done. The only thing I've ever 
changed on the configuration is the ports I forward.  I've never had a hard 
drive in my Freesco router, and I don't plan on ever putting one in. 

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