[ale] [EXTERNAL] Linux on 6GB Dell notebook?

[Jerald Sheets]

We used to do a thing called “halted firewalls” which was busy box (Kernel + base binaries) and ipchains.  You would get it all set up and remove your K script for the final shut down of the OS and remove the network K script and the ipchains K script.  The chains would still be active and the network stack would still be running, but the firewall was unable to be compromised because it was, in effect, “halted”  No filesystems were mounted, and no login was presented, but there it was happily running along.  

I think we did those in 100M (and smaller) drives.  This was circa RedHat 3/4, prior to RH AS and then RHEL.  Think 1996-8.


—j

> On Dec 8, 2021, at 10:35 PM, Ben Coleman via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11/15/2021 11:59 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>> Linux had moved long way. From be able to run kernel and shell in 2 MB to would it run in 6GB.
> 
> I can remember running a firewall on a machine that only had a 100MB hard drive.  And that was enough to be able to compile a kernel on the machine.  Now the Linux sources themselves won't fit in 100MB.
> 
> Ben
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