Cassandra Brockett writes:
> 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.
I'd recommend a minimal Debian installation, which you can probably
squeeze into a 128 MB CF card. If you exit out of the installer
section where it asks what kind of install you want, you can keep the
install pretty lean. Then, you can remove any cruft packages that you
really don't want and install bind9. You should be left with no open
ports other than 53.
You can do a net install into a chroot, tar up the contents and later
stamp out as many copies as you need.
Regards,
Richard....
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