[Wylug-help] Small server distro

[James Holden (Wylug)]

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Dave Brotherstone wrote:
| This is not a plea to start a flame war :)
|
| I'm looking for a decent distro that has a small footprint, installs
easily,
| and is flexible.  I am going to a (very) remote site, and need to set a
| machine up such that I can access their network, but it's likely that the
| machine I'm provided with will be "light" on resources.
|
| I like gentoo, but i won't have time to install it (although a stage 3
install
| is a possibility, for gentoo fans).   Redhat seems to leave a 1gb
footprint
| these days, but perhaps someone knows a RH based distro or something that
| fits the bill.
|
| Firewall based distros are basically out, because I need more
flexibility in
| terms of development tools.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Dave.

How about building up a machine before you set off, then dumping the
build onto the hard disk on the machine there? Build all the network
driver modules then it'll just autodetect the interfaces.

If you have a spare hard disk, you could just drop it straight in
already loaded up.

James
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