Small Distro Question

[Darin Perusich]

since you need to do a minimial install i might recommend going with 
debian. i setup a similar dns server in my house, old Sun IPX 48mhz 
sparc, 40 mb ram, 400 mb harddrive. i was able to fit the base system 
inside about 50mb of disk space, this included the compiler, binutils, 
everything that i'd need to make bind. i always prefer make things like 
bind from source but it shouldn't matter. the only draw back is when i 
compiled bind-9.2.0 on this system it took the better part of 12 hours!! 
with that i mind you might want to go with packages.

Jonathan Younker wrote:
> Hello,
> My name is Jonathan, and I've been lurking on the list for a little 
> while now.  I've been using Linux for about a year, mostly in a library 
> environment (money's tight for libraries these days).
> We're looking into setting up a bare-bones DNS server as a fail-over for 
> the library's main ones housed in the school's IT department.  It would 
> only run the DNS software and SSH.
> We've got some old 486s that have 500mb HDDs and 16mb RAM.
> My question:
> Are there any distros that anyone would recommend for something like this?
> I've played with Slackware, but I've heard of some smaller 
> distributions.  Does anyone have a favourite?
> Thanks,
> Jonathan.
> 
> 


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com