[Soekris] Minimalist *nix distro?

[James K. Lowden]

Philip Plane 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.
> 
> When I do this sort of thing I use OpenBSD. It fits easily on a 256M CF
> card. It has practically nothing on by default, and you can turn the
> rest off easily. It comes with bind9.

I use NetBSD for much the same reason.  It comes with bind and dhcp, and
nothing listens to the network by default.  Serial console is no problem. 
To install, I netboot the install kernel and read the sets over NFS.  

--jkl