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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:50:40 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Roddy Collins <collinsr@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: small install
Message-ID:  <20021005204828.X36701-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20021004125433.A5315@cs.rpi.edu>

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Roddy Collins wrote:

RC> > so if i want to build/install world
RC> >   o for a rather small but not pico system, 32m ram and 512m hd
RC> >     see <http://www.wildlab.com/>;
RC> >   o not have games, compiler, ... but need networking of course
RC> >   o do the install onto an ibm microdrive on my laptop which i then
RC> >     push into the tiny machine
RC> >
RC> > are there clues, howto, ... somewhere?
RC>
RC> I used the steps at http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html with great
RC> success to get 4.7-PRE into 14 megabytes onto a flash card for a
RC> firewall.

It would be very useful for such installations if we could wipe out IPv6
support from the binaries (small/embedded systems rarely need it), so defining
global make.conf knob such as NO_IPV6 seems appropriate to me.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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