From: "David Woyciesjes" <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>:
> Actually, a nice option would be to set up and trim out everything
> for a PPPoE firewall, and wrap that up in a tarball. Then you boot off
the
> floppy, and grab that tarball from the LAN, and shove it into RAMdisk.
That
> would make for better security, quicker loading into RAMdisk, and less
> hassle (you wouldn't need to setup PPPoE just to start the box...

Well, since the floppy would be available for saving configuration
information for subsequent boots, hopefully it could come up fully
configured on reboot.
I was just thinking that the absolute minimum would be already on the
floppy (kind of like you said), and the "extra" stuff you might want
could be pulled down to a ramdisk.  (like apache, or sshd, or whatever)

-Andrew