[Soekris] Minimalist *nix distro?

[Thomas Lundquist]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:29:40PM -0700, Cassandra Brockett wrote:
> 
> 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

Well, two options from me:

Buildroot: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/

With this you can choose the packages you want and it has targets for
Soekris boards.

I also maintain my own distro for Soekris; http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
but it's kinda like a specialized buildroot and going straight to the
source may be the simplest choice (but more complex to configure,
buildroot have many nice options :=)

With floppyfw you'd have to download the devkit, configure, add a bind
makefile/package and compile it all. With Buildroot you also configure
and compile but it builds it's own toolchain.



Thomas.