Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:24:30 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bare bones install of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <396DB4FE.796C2767@buckhorn.net> References: <396DB335.758C53CC@miltonstreet.com>
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Sam Carleton wrote: > > I have installed FreeBSD before and like the beast a great deal. I am > about to install FreeBSD on a P200 Pro that is going to be a web server > w/ MySQL, mail server, and DNS server, all for the small web site. > Considering this machine is going to be on the outside of a firewall, I > was going to implement the firewall on it simply for itself. > > My question is this: I am install FreeBSD 4.0-SABLE on the P200 Pro. I > want to do a very minimal install on the machine but I want to make sure > I have the tools I need to setup things up: > > 1) I am going to be compiling a number of the servers myself, so I need > the gcc compiler. I do not want to install any development programs > that I do not absoluting need. > > 2) I would like to be able to run vim in X-Windows mode from another > machine, thus I need to be able to compile vim with X-Windows support. > But I do not want X-Windows itself on this machine. > > 3) I want to uninstall the compiler once I am done using the compiler. > > How would I go about doing such a bare bones install, but still having > the headers and libs I need for vim and all the right stuff to compile > code? How do I uninstall the stuff when that time comes? > > Sam Sam, It sounds like your talking about more than one machine when your done, why not do all the building/compiling on the non-production machine? That way you can do a minimal install on the web server. Bob -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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