From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 10:36:28 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 BC48316A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ohwy.com (ns1.ohwy.com [12.154.210.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA5543F3F for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:36:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rduvall@onlinehighways.net) Message-ID: <00dd01c3a3cb$adf18100$f901a8c0@ws21> From: "Rick Duvall" To: "Shantanoo Mahajan" , References: <3FA8E237.6080703@debank.tv> <20031105175505.GA303@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:36:06 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: 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 18:36:28 -0000 I use a little box built by Intel in my house for my DSL. It's an ITX formfactor chassis. It has 1 ethernet on board and 1 PCI slot where you can put a second NIC. There are no drive bays, so you have to take the machine apart to plug a temporary CD-Rom drive into the motherboard to install the OS. In my case, I already had a hard drive with FreeBSD loaded on it, so I just transplanted the drive into the ITX chassis. As far as hard drive, it's hard to find 300M drives anymore. Your best bet would be to go for the least expensive drive you can, even if it is a 20 gig IDE. Nothing says that you can't have a 20 gig drive and only use 300M of space on it. Sure, it's a waste of drive space, but who cares if you only pay $40 for a drive that has a 5 year warranty. You also might want to look at solid state filesystem. I think this has been discussed on the list from time to time. Then you only have to worry about cooling fans. Sincerely, Rick Duvall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shantanoo Mahajan" To: "Rob Evers" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:55 AM Subject: Re: creating a small FreeBSD box > +++ Rob Evers [freebsd] [05-11-03 12:42 +0100]: > | 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 > | > | > | ------------------------------ > > > man picobsd > > Regards, > Shantanoo > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >