[Soekris] Minimalist *nix distro?

[Frank Cole]

Hi Cassandra,

	You could roll your own really tiny distro without to much fuss with a 
busybox environent http://www.busybox.net + bind 9 + kernel.  Busybox 
also has its own DHCP client and Bind compatible name server daemons so 
you could get away with not having ISC Bind9 maybe.

	If you want to go that route, email me off list and I can get you setup.

Frank Cole
Cole Innovations, Inc.

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
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