> 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
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