From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 21:41:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C6616A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:41:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1A9443D4C for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:41:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 18820 invoked by uid 0); 8 Mar 2005 21:41:14 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (69.73.60.132) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2005 21:41:14 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id 55754670B; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:41:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:41:14 -0600 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20050308214114.GA31879@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <422E0950.4010400@p6m7g8.com> <200503082042.j28KgUv17252@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503082042.j28KgUv17252@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:41:16 -0000 On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:42:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a stripped down > > version in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried sometime > > around 5.0 to do this it was up to about 90MB > > That's a really stripped down installation though. I once stripped down 4.7 to under 10 MB then another 10 MB of Apache & extensions, and another 10 MB of Perl. My stripping technique was not to remove that which was unneeded but to add only that which was needed, drawn from a chroot'ed custom build which dynamically linked items such as /bin/sh which are normally statically linked so that they work when /usr/lib isn't available. Wasn't an issue for this application as everything went on as single read-only filesystem on a Compact Flash card. Used my list of binaries to extract a list of libraries referenced, then only copied those libraries to my target. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.