If your only using the box as a firewall, you need very little. Its actually recommended to only have what it takes to boot the box and in that case a floppy would work. If you plan to use this box as a router/firewall and server, you'll need to decide what services you plan to run like ftp, http, telnet, will you be using nfs at all, aand so on. You can pretty much not bother with any X apps which will save you space for sure, news readers and such unless you plan to telnet into the box to read mail and so on, and there's like lots of other stuff you won't need. Go through the packages during the instllation and look at each and decide at that point. You can always add or remove what you don't want. Contact me if you have other questions and I'll be happy to help as much as I can.
