On Apr 18, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Cassandra Brockett wrote: > 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. > > 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). >
Cassandra, I personally use OpenBSD on my soekris box. It's very minimal, as others have mentioned. Also, the flashdist script allows you to configure it fairly simply. I took notes on my procedure here: http://www.therac25.net/projects-net4801.php Good luck! -Andy > -- > Cassandra Brockett > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
