Subject: Re: Multia and small IDE hard disk question.
To: None <schluntz@agames.com>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/09/1998 12:00:20
> From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@agames.com>
>
> I see from the back lists that the IDE driver for the Multia is working, 
> just not very effecient.  Is it possible to do an install with only a 
> 174meg Hard Disk?  This is what I'm looking for:
>
> A bare bones system to act as firewall (running ppp and a serial ISDN 
> line now and natd later with two nics) and a small Apache proxy (10-20 
> megs.)
>
> Do you all think this is possible with -currnet?
>
> Thanks!

The IDE subsystem gets acceptable performance for many applications, certainly
it is more than fast enough for a firewall.

And yes, that's enough disk space for a minimal install.