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| + | == NAS-Like Live CD == | ||
| + | aka Damn Small Server | ||
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| + | I had a requirement for a small server, not unlike the NASLite products available from [http://www.serverelements.com Server Elements]. Although their offerings were very neat, I found that they lacked a couple of things that I needed - PCMCIA card support and a built-in DHCP server. | ||
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| + | Using both the full and [http://www.damnsmalllinux.org DSL] versions of Knoppix, I was able to create a small (80Mb) Linux distribution that could boot from CD and satisfy these needs. | ||
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| + | [http://www.samba.org Samba] provides file-sharing services, automatically sharing a hard disk partition. [http://udhcp.busybox.net UDHCPD] allows clients to participate in the network without being reconfigured. | ||
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| + | The distribution is very basic (as are my Linux skills), but could be enhanced and improved quite easily to suit other purposes (eg DNS, NFS, FTP services etc). | ||
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| + | If you would like a copy of my server ISO/source, or are able to provide space on an FTP server to host it, please let me know! | ||
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| + | Iain McLaren | ||
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| + | ifmclaren[at]gmail[dot]com | ||
Revision as of 19:51, 25 February 2006
NAS-Like Live CD
aka Damn Small Server
I had a requirement for a small server, not unlike the NASLite products available from Server Elements. Although their offerings were very neat, I found that they lacked a couple of things that I needed - PCMCIA card support and a built-in DHCP server.
Using both the full and DSL versions of Knoppix, I was able to create a small (80Mb) Linux distribution that could boot from CD and satisfy these needs.
Samba provides file-sharing services, automatically sharing a hard disk partition. UDHCPD allows clients to participate in the network without being reconfigured.
The distribution is very basic (as are my Linux skills), but could be enhanced and improved quite easily to suit other purposes (eg DNS, NFS, FTP services etc).
If you would like a copy of my server ISO/source, or are able to provide space on an FTP server to host it, please let me know!
Iain McLaren
ifmclaren[at]gmail[dot]com
