Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:06:09 +0300 (MSK) From: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Very inexpensive installation of FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970328115146.4675B-100000@economic.acnit.ac.ru>
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Hi ! We need an inexpensive router ( TCP/IP , 3-10 modems , 1-2 Ethers). And haven't very many money . We assembled 386SX w/ 4MB RAM , 40MB HDD , multiport card ... , without keyboard and video card. After I try to install very nice OS - FreeBSD to that configuration on other computer . I partioned 40MB HDD by a following ( 32 MB - root , 8 MB - swap ). And I trying to install FreeBSD 2.2-BETA on this root device ... I simply copying directory hierachy to 32MB / . I'm very tried by this process , ( 2 hours ), but I'm create working system with 7MB free of 32MB . First way to install FreeBSD on super-mini disk slices is addition to Installation menu on boot disks following (Distributions/SuperMini) - only nessesary binaries such as sh, named, route , ..., i.e . for an embedded systems and networking . Or second way ( best ) add to the Distributions following item : SuperCustom for very detailed choice of needed componets . Even in Linux I can select to install only packages which I wish . FreeBSD's sysinstall menu Distributions/Custom has only one choice bin[X] - 33MB . Why ? Where flexibility ? Why Linux ( RedHat and SlackWare ) installator provides more custom- ization in compare to FreeBSD installator ( I use 2.2-BETA_A ) Thanks , Vasily . *******************[FreeBSD it is coolest UNIX for PC!]************************ | System admin , ftp and web master. | Voronezh State Technical University | | http://www.econ.acnit.ac.ru/~bazilio/ | Industrial Economy Departament | *******************************************************************************
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