Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:19:24 +0200 From: "Rodrigo Readi" <scire@web.de> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: How to make the kernel small, smaller, smallest? Message-ID: <200304241719.h3OHJOq24455@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
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Thanks for your answers to my previous posting. Manuels's Article about minibsd contains indeed a lot of interesting matters, but it is unfortunately not for my purpose: I want a minimal FreeBSD in one, at most two, floppies that allows me to start an Xserver over a NFS. PicoBSD is more for my purposes, thanks Bruce for your notes. Now I have a new question: how to build a very small kernel? Today I threw a lot away from the GENERIG config file, but inspite of it, it compiled a lot of functions (modules?) that dont seem usefull to me. At the end I had a little more than 2MB, gzipped a half of it. I put it in my bootfloppy with the loader, and booted from it, the machine asked for a device with the root directory, and I put a floppy with sh, init and getty, but it hang (perhaps I forgot login). Then I tried with oinit of picobsd, but the process died (error "signal 6"). Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Rodrigo. ______________________________________________________________________________ UNICEF bittet um Spenden fur die Kinder im Irak! Hier online an UNICEF spenden: https://spenden.web.de/unicef/special/?mc=021101
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