As Andy Michaels says, flashdist is very good; it's a stripped-down OpenBSD install with a script that will build and configure a CF for you automatically on another OpenBSD box. Once you have a good image, you can just dd it to all your other cards. By default it runs SSH, but you can turn that off by commenting out the end of the rc file. It's pretty obvious where it does this.
The flashdist script installs all the files listed in flashsmall.txt. So you can prune out anything you want, and then add in the bind files. It sounds like what you want is an appliance, and OpenBSD gets closest to that. The chance of you being forced to patch that system, while non-zero, is lower than pretty much any other OS. FreeBSD is fine, but for this usage, I think OpenBSD would be better. The Linux kernel, on the other hand, is a constant stream of problems and bugs, and I don't recommend it for a low-maintenance environment. If you really want to use Linux, I'd suggest using Adrian Bunk's stable tree. With that kernel, at least you're not forced to accept new, untested features to get your (many, many) bugfixes. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
