Hi,
> I'm looking for an extremely minimalist *nix distro for running one
> program - Bind, as a caching name server only.
>
> There's a bunch of places I need to install these things, and I use the
> Soekris for things like this, but I'm a little concerned using a distro
> designed for firewalls (such as m0n0wall) due to the extra packages on
> the system, basically I'd like something as small as possible.
When I do this sort of thing I use OpenBSD. It fits easily on a 256M CF
card. It has practically nothing on by default, and you can turn the rest
off easily. It comes with bind9.
> So... If anyone knows of:-
> a) A distro that has just the base system that I can compile
> Bind (prefer Bind9) for and it has nothing else active/installed by
> default.
> b) A distro that might have extra packages, but the packages
> need to be specifically enabled
> I cannot have ANYTHING but bind responding on the network on these
> boxen, hence the request for info. And yes, I mean anything, meaning
> everything configuration is serial-based. I'm happy with a web-based
> config or something for initial config, but once the systems are at
> "production" stage even that can't be responding.
>
> Oh and of course, anything I can just duplicate out about 20+ CF's for
> the boxes post initial configuration would be great.
> And one more thing, the boxes IP's will be set via DHCP at the remote
> sites... I know I can build a distro for just this manually (and very
> painfully), but I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel (ie. I'm lazy).
Out of the box OpenBSD supports serial console. It asks wether to use
serial console during the install.
It supports DHCP. Also ask during install.
I'd suggest setting up a single CF, tweak the config to do what you want,
then use dd to make your 20 images.
I used to set up the CF images by borrowing a laptop and using a CF/PCMCIA
adapter, but these days I find it easier to set up for network
boot/install to get a Soekris setup.
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