From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jul 6 8:28:59 2002 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 13E6137B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:28:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f136.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.23.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC80643E09 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amyshaftoe@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:28:56 -0700 Received: from 12.237.225.124 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 15:28:56 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.237.225.124] From: "Amy Shaftoe" To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Perhaps a new "distribution"? Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 10:28:56 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jul 2002 15:28:56.0780 (UTC) FILETIME=[D7EFB0C0:01C22501] Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > would love to be able to use BSD on. I need a bit of user > > data space, so I > > think a striped down distro (small enough to fit on, let say, > > 50-100MB) but with full funcionality would be great for me. > >Well the only thing I would wish for at the moment is one or two >additional distribution choices in the FreeBSD installer. "Minimal" >takes up about 80 MB at the moment, but includes things you may not need >on a truly minimal system (like e.g. compilers). It would be cool if a >more detailed choice could be made during installation, say up to a >granularity where you can decide whether or not you want Perl, or gcc, >or sendmail, etc. That would render my guide almost obsolete, however. I just wish I could install the current FreeBSD distribution on a machine with only 8 MB of memory. I think 4.3 was the last release where that was possible. I tried to build custom boot floppies for 4.5 with most of the ethernet drivers removed. While I got a little further in the boot process with these floppies, it still failed. Has anyone had any success in doing this? On some machines I have (old laptops) adding more RAM isn't an option and removing the hard drive to do the install somewhere else is a pain. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message