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! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!