From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 01:20:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA29233 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 01:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from economic.acnit.ac.ru (economic.acnit.ac.ru [193.233.113.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA29006 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 01:12:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bazilio@localhost) by economic.acnit.ac.ru (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA04695; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:06:09 +0300 (MSK) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:06:09 +0300 (MSK) From: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Very inexpensive installation of FreeBSD ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 | *******************************************************************************