On Thursday 19 April 2007 01:29, 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 Brockett
You could try OpenWrt. Using its Image Builder you have complete control over what goes in there. You will need to use the Kamikaze version, not White Russian, but that checks out of svn quite easily and I think there may even be snapshots somewhere that would ready for use with the Image Builder. It is built around 2.6.19 (currently), uclib, busybox etc, and will fit in boxes with as little as 4MB of Flash. David _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
