In message <20030313003731.GD2778@snew.com>, Chuck Yerkes writes:
>a T1 as a firewall.  It's got over 100MB of disk.  I've got systems
>booting into less disk than you have RAM (soekris compact flash down
>to 19MB).

I'm using nearly 60 MB on mine - but that's because it needs gnupg, and the
gnupg package requires perl, and I'm too lazy to do much trimming.

>> but that is a v. good idea, however I'm not sure how differently laptop
>> hdd's are designed, and also my desktop
>> is a slim-line box; not really designed for additions.

>Bad design can always be fixed with a hacksaw.
>I dunno if it's an IDE drive.  There are "little IDE" to regular
>IDE adapters.  Then stick a nonconductive, I dunno, mouse pad,
>under it.  No reason not to have cables and drives hanging out of
>your machine.  Puts hair on your chest.

It is almost certainly IDE, if it's a Pentium-era laptop.

-s