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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>,
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Hi!
   do you think ... /usr/share .. can be safely
removed ... because it has locale and stuff ... I have
never used it ... but I dont know if it is required
for commercial products ... and also modules ...
because even they take up a lot of space ... 

thanks
-pranav

--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> 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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