From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 5:24:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.buckhorn.net (matrix.buckhorn.net [208.129.165.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7479037B90A for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net (nebula.buckhorn.net [208.129.165.66]) by matrix.buckhorn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA23066 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:21:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <396DB4FE.796C2767@buckhorn.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:24:30 -0500 From: Bob Martin Organization: InterNet Unlimited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: bare bones install of FreeBSD? References: <396DB335.758C53CC@miltonstreet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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