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Eventually, I want to get 4 lines up for dialup access, but that won't be for a few more months. I have my 1 line configured for 1.2 to 33.6kbps access so most systems can access it. VoIP can handle 28.8 and 33.6kbps connections (tested it myself). Actually, now is the best time to run one, especially with VoIP and cheaper phone lines and long distance. The BBS isn't dead, as some people may think. It will be a public one, and I plan on supporting new and old platforms, like the old Atari, Commodore, Apple, and others. I plan on providing Telnet, SSH, and Dialup (eventually) on it. I had no problem installing Synchronet to play with on a remote dedicated Gentoo machine through a provider. Please mail me when you get the BBS up, if it's a public one - I'd love to give it a shot. Lightweight Gentoo Wiki article that talks about making a small setup. Tiny Gentoo Talks about making a Gentoo system as small as 5MB. Easier and more routine maybe than building everything on the other box and somehow copying it over. I've often thought you could use a stage 3 level system, export root via nfs, and chroot into it from another box with a stronger processor to do system maintenance. If not, compile an embedded system on one of your other boxes. It would be easier to use Damn Small Linux (not sure if that's compiled for 686). I can't even imagine emerge -sync on a 486 >. Gentoo is not great for this purpose, unless you build an embedded version of gentoo. Posted: Fri 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: Building a Synchronet Board I had my 4-line board running on an old 386DX-33 before, but that was back in the ol' DOS/Desqview/Wildcat! days. If Gentoo can't do it, can anyone tell me which distro is small enough for this task? The specs are: How can I crush Gentoo down enough to run a board? My other boxes use around 800MB-1GB of HDD space, which is a bit excessive. I'm rebuilding my old BBS and was going to use an old 486 running Gentoo. Posted: Fri 10:58 pm Post subject: Building a Synchronet Board Gentoo Forums Forum Index Other Things Gentoo Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Building a Synchronet Board