On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:45:35AM -0800, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote: > There are other considerations which I have consider > too. Small footprint is a No 1 item here. The > floppy-based firewall/nat router can't house a > http server anyway, so a small footprint daemon off on a tangent here, but there are several small/mini/micro/tiny webservers. i built mini-httpd, static, gzipped at under 250k. moreover, (unfortunately) there are minimally functional webservers written in awk and shellscript, both of which are on several single-floppy distro's. also, nowadays, the single-floppy distro's can often be substituted with cd-rom boot systems (demolinux, knoppix, roll-your-own), due to the more general availability and affordability of cd-rom writers. there are probably few, if any, space issues with a cd-rom boot system. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
