[RULE] Can I install Linux onto a 40Mb drive?

[Peter Edbrooke]

Hi,

 

I am new to this list, and have very little Linux experience.

I have a computer with 64Mb Ram, but I only have a spare 40Mb hard drive.

I wanted to use it as a gateway machine to the Internet, so I need to run a firewall (iptables preferably)

And wanted to also play around with a VPN (FreeS/Wan) and maybe run a few servers on this machine.

Is it possible to get Linux on such a small drive?

It would be great to get Linux running using around about 5Mb with all these features, as I would like to do a lot more with the machine in the future.

That doesn’t sound possible to me, but I’ve been told it is, but I don’t know where to begin.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Peter