From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 04:04:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DBF16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:04:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53301.mail.yahoo.com (web53301.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 613F143D58 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:04:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from non_secure@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.94.23.114] by web53301.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:04:28 PDT Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Schmoe To: Murray Taylor In-Reply-To: <1087259406.34774.16.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:04:47 -0000 Murray Taylor wrote: Google for minibsd http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143 quite successfully mjt Thanks - this is interesting. However, this is still somewhat of a brute force method for piecing things together - I thought there was some kind of elegant mechanism where you could edit make.conf or something, so that when you did a make world, it would skip the components that you didn't want to - and you could control it with much more granularity than you can in the custom menu in sysinstall ... does this sound familiar at all ? That is, forget that I am doing solid state / flash at all - what is the correct way to install FreeBSD without things like ppp, isdn, and other pieces of the _base_ system that you don't want ? thanks. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger