In message <200106091929.PAA03103@anduin.eldar.org>, Brad Spencer writes:
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>   > -> 
>   > -> I am about to put together a quick and dirty router,
>   > -> consisting of a 486 with a couple of network cards.
>   > -> Does anyone know of a minimal NetBSD distribution
>   > -> which will support this - and which will reboot
>
>   please drop me mail if anyone want. 
>   .tar.gz takes 6.5MB, uncompressed 12MB, without kernel (compile yourself).
>
>   can be easily cut down much more, but now it have lots of useful tools
>   like sshd etc..
>
>   anyway fits on 40MB disk without problems
>
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>Or, nearly, on a 32MB CF card in a PCMCIA slot.  Although, the booting
>part might be a trick, as I doubt most BIOS's would treat a "secondary"
>IDE controller as a valid booting device.  Maybe coupled with a floppy??
>

Some laptops will boot from PCMCIA disks --  I've done it.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb