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 -- Oliver Schulze L. | Get my e-mail after a captcha in: Asuncion - Paraguay | http://tinymailto.com/oliver