Router Gateway webserver Samba server

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 22:20, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> List
> 
>    I am now tired of netmax bullxxxx. I want to replace old 
> Router sw qith something that will give me the following:
> Router Gateway webserver Samba server, and no more cadera. The
> machine is a PI - 233 MMX on a shuttle board with 128 meg of memory.
> it eventually be headless or i my kvt system. acutually it is working
> right now as the router. This unit will also be other servers to my
> intranet system. What distro would be best, I need to learn
> IPTables,apache2 etc. Free distro is best for now, if possible.
> 
> thanks in advance  cheers

I would use Freesco.  http://www.freesco.org.  It is a small distro that
runs on a floppy. Plus, you don't have to worry about stripping out all
the extraneous stuff that is not needed for a router/gateway.   I use it
at work for a router on a 486-33 w/ 16megs o' ram.  

It will do all that you require and you can install it on a hard drive
if you want.  It is cake to set up and configure.  Samba is a 3rd party
app that you will need to add to it though, but is listed on the
freescosoft.org website, a site for all add-on apps for Freesco.  Samba
may make it require the hdd install but I dunno.  Also, it generally
needs DOS on the hdd but I believe there is a blurb in the FAQ about
installing it w/o DOS.  

--Tom Wilson