I have been running Samba on Fedora Core for years. I now have a low-power piece of hardware with very modest resource on which I want to run Samba only. Fedora seems an overkill.

Is there a ready made tiny distro (Feather Linux? DSL? something ) that will allow me to run Samba only?

The idea is that it can on a 50MB media (USB stick or similar).

Of course, there is always the possibility that I will compile my own Gentoo version, but I prefer to use something readily available - if possible.

Thanks!

I think you have basically answered your own question

Have a look around the Damn Small Linux website. It will suite your needs for sure.

Regards

Thanks. The problem is that when I looked at list of packages in the Damn Small Linux website, everything is included - except for Samba:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html

Perhaps FeatherLinux would do the job?

Otherwise... Gentoo?

I just want to make sure that I didn't miss some significant development in the past few years (I have been using too much Ubuntu and Fedora).

I would suggest either tinycore or debian live or grml-medium (fluxbox)
grml-medium doesn't come with samba but its as easy as "apt-get samba-common" and your still under 300mb and can remove some stuff too
http://daily.grml.org/
pkg list for grml-medium
http://grml.org/files/release-2009.05-medium/dpkg_list

if you wanna go without a desktop get microcore or grml-small

dsl and feather are both dead dude...sad

tinycore is the new dsl too, made by guy who started "MyDSL" and all that

you can remaster them too probably...

oh yeah
PMagic-4.4 is 100mb and you xcan get a samba pmodule too
http://beefdrapes.partedmagic.com/modules/

http://partedmagic.com/

I just finished my remaster of grml/pmagic and others
http://multidistro.com/hammer/fluxboxp.html

http://multidistro.com/fluxboxp/fluxboxp.html

uploading final cut tonight
you want help remastering or somethin?

Dude, you are good! Thank you very much.

This information is enlightening as I was completely unaware of the developments on these fronts. I looked at tiny core and it seems like desktop oriented.

What I need is server-oriented with no X capabilities. Perhaps telnet/SSH and configuring Samba via a browser. It seems like microcore or grml-small are the ones to try.

I will probably need help in remastering but for now I am still learning the subject.

Thanks!