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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <40928.1078919852@critter.freebsd.dk>
>             "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> : Not long ago I manually cut down a -current to run in 32MB but I
> : admit that there were a fair bit of stuff missing :-)
> 
> FreeBSD 4.5 can be cut down to about 8MB or so, but 5 likely can't go
> below about 12-15MB without a lot of pain.

I have a 4.9 picobsd vpn server in 8MB.. it's all ok until you need ssh :-/
(I use the picobsd-ssh port but it's still VERY tight)


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