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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