Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:19:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: p d <pddeals@yahoo.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: decompressing executable before using Message-ID: <20020618211917.GE84123@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020618211038.84849.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020618202458.GB84123@dan.emsphone.com> <20020618211038.84849.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 18), p d said:
> 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 ...
You should be able to fit a minimal FreeBSD install in under 100 MB
easily. Install only /bin, /sbin, /etc, /usr/{bin,sbin,lib,libexec},
then rip out stuff you don't need. You can probably get rid of 2 dozen
files in /bin and /sbin and free up 5 MB; same for lib and libexec.
Remove all static libs, remove gcc, perl, etc etc.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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