Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:09:43 +0100 From: Rob Evers <rob@debank.tv> To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating a small FreeBSD box Message-ID: <3FA8E887.1020109@debank.tv> In-Reply-To: <20031105034548.K40387@skutsje.san.webweaving.org> References: <3FA8E237.6080703@debank.tv> <20031105034548.K40387@skutsje.san.webweaving.org>
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: >>I need to make a few FreeBSD boxes, these will all be limited in disk >>space, >>and act as firewall/router. (pentium and 300M disk) >> What I want is a limited operating system that has only the essential >>networking stuff, shell, and a custom kernel but for example no BIND and >>CVS. >> >> > >For very few boxes just making an 'ideal' machine and cloning may be >easiest. > >For a few boxes - Do a man sysinstall - and see the scripting section. Or >see this example: > > http://www.horseplay.demon.co.uk/freebsd_post_sysinstall.html > >for more complex setups - e.g. booting an install image off the net using >PXE boot or an etherboot floppy - see > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~scorpio/sane2002/talk.pdf > http://www.horseplay.demon.co.uk/freebsd_pxe.html > http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml > http://wiki.wirelessleiden.nl/wcl/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/NodeFactory > >Dw > > Thanks, I have some reading to do :-) Rob Evers
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