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From: p d <pddeals@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: decompressing executable before using
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>,
	freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Hi!
   I did look at picoBSD ... but the problem is I have
to use the freebsd that comes with a software I am
planning to run .. its a caching software ... so at
the most I can recompile the kernel ... or strip down
the system ... I did get it down to 170M ... but I
have to fit it on a 128M flash ... so I was thinking
if the libraries and the executables get compressed
... it might do the job ... 

thanks
-pranav

--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 18), p d said:
> > Hi!
> >    thanks Kris ... that should work ... is it
> possible to do
> > something for the libraries ... I am trying to fit
> the system on a
> > flash ... so I am trying to reduce it as much as
> possible ...
> 
> You might want to take a look at PicoBSD (
> /usr/src/release/picobsd ,
> old docs at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html, and
> the
> freebsd-small mailinglist ). It's designed to squish
> as much stuff onto
> a floppy image as possible.
> 
> PicoBSD saves a lot of space by using no shared libs
> at all. 
> Statically link all your apps into one huge
> monolithic binary, with a
> dummy main() that runs the right program based on
> argv[0].  man
> crunchgen and crunchide for more info.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
> 
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