creating a small FreeBSD box

[Dofri Jonsson]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:09:43 +0100
Rob Evers <rob at debank.tv> wrote:

> 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
> 

There's also miniBSD:
http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html

Dofri