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.
I agree with others who have suggested Flashdist for installing OpenBSD on your CF. I did yet another pair of Soekris 4501 firewalls last night using the Flashdist script. Both systems use the CF for read-only storage, with a separate memory filesystem mounted read-write for the few writes that are absolutely necessary (/var is symlinked to /tmp/var). # uname -a OpenBSD soke1.dixongroup.net 4.1 NET4501#0 i386 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on root_device 236M 18.2M 206M 8% / mfs:22319 7.8M 172K 7.3M 2% /tmp # mount /dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local, read-only) mfs:22319 on /tmp type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=16384 512-blocks) As you can see, even the default Flashdist build list weighs in at just over 18MB. This could easily be slimmed down even further. The image can then be dd'd to your other CF media (or the Flashdist script run again). Thanks, -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/ _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
