Oliver Schulze L. spake the following on 12/5/2006 2:11 PM:
Kevan Benson wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:10, Daniel de Kok wrote: The higher end (48xx) Soekris box is a 586, and CentOS installs fine (PXE booting is the easy route). I can't comment on the WRAP boxes, I haven't actually worked with one.
Thats correct, I'm planing buying an AMD Geode that is i586
I think to actually get CentOS down that small there's a few RPMs you have to force remove. It makes upgrading anything a pain because you have to manually add and force packages for install as well.
Will take this in mind, I was thinking upgrading with yum.
With lower-end hardware it is usually easier to go with a custom Busybox setup. Busybox is small, and quite easy to set up.
I would second this. CentOS' dependencies are pretty complex and intermingled when you get to a small set of installed RPMs.
I think I should get a 512MB flash memory, they are cheap these days and will help having more .rpm installed. I'm planning using it as a router, so I need:
- yum
- iptables
- ssh
- apache + php
- maybe mysql
Thanks Daniel and Kevan for the info Oliver
I know this is a CentOS list, but did you look at monowall? It is great on those small boards, and runs in less memory.
Please don't flame me. I just like to have more options when I do a project. I assume that others will too!