From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 03:42:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936C416A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 03:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from haha.debank.tv (c92069.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.92.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12F543FDD for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 03:42:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rob@debank.tv) Received: from debank.tv (X-server.debank.tv [192.168.1.69]) by haha.debank.tv (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA5Bg86J074944 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:42:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rob@debank.tv) Message-ID: <3FA8E237.6080703@debank.tv> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:42:47 +0100 From: Rob Evers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031018 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: creating a small FreeBSD box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 11:42:16 -0000 Hi all, 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. In the end all machines should have the same OS installed. What's a good way to handle this? Making a custom release, an install script, tweaking make.conf and install from source or of course something else. (I don't need a ready solution, but some insight in how to acomplish this task in an efficient manner.) Thanks Rob Evers