WAD - Webserver on a disk now available

[Roy Tennant]

There is now a link to this message on the Library Web Manager's 
Reference Center at:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/faq.html

under "The Best of Web4Lib". Thanks, Ulrich.
Roy

On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Ulrich Babiak wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the "Webserver on a disk" (WAD) is now ready to be used. As some of
> you might remember, it is a minimal webserver fitting on a
> single disk. It is meant to turn any 486 PC temporarily into a backup 
> webserver in case of failure or maintenance of a "real" server.
> The OS and software on the PC will remain untouched as WAD operates
> completely off the floppy.
> 
> BTW thanks to those who offered to act as
> betatesters - no reaction means no complaints, right?
> 
> WAD does the following: it boots up from a single floppy
> as a minimal Linux system with a running httpd (AKA ye
> web server) and is preconfigured to respond with a maintenance
> note to all the incoming requests - no more "no connection"
> errors for your customers/users. WAD is meant to be
> foolproof - it should run out of the box/the disk.
> 
> However, Linux/unix experts can use it for many other
> useful purposes as it comes with full networking support and
> - being a Linux system - can be used for network and
> workstation troubleshooting.
> 
> Hardware requirements: any 486 DX PC and above
> network card must be ne2000 compatible or 3com 3c5xxx
> 
> More information/documentation (+download) at
> 
>                http://www.dom.de/FreiRaum/uli/wad.htm
> 
> Those who hate Gif Animations (I remember the discussion...) will
> kindly notice that there is a non-looping(!) animation, isn't that
> great?   :-)
> 
> BTW, WAD is free, of course!
> 
> Acknowledgements:
> the core of WAD is the DLX Linux distribution, so if you
> are interested in making your customized single-floppy-Linux
> system go to http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html.
> 
> Have fun  (and tell me how it works),
> Uli
> 
> 
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