From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 11:33:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F41237B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from onyx (onyx.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.140.171]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1EJXFM25667; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:33:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:33:14 -0500 (EST) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@onyx To: Phat Pham Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel In-Reply-To: <20010214192458.61034.qmail@web9606.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are new, then you probably use the GENERIC kernel. Later on, you can learn how to compile a custom kernel. By removing some options in the kernel, you can make the kernel smaller. See FreeBSD handbook online. Besides kernel, there are other packages/ports you can install, like X-windows. If you install these packages/ports, more disk space will be needed. But this is different from kernel. Many things are easier to understand if you have Unix background. For example, many things talked in Linux books are applied to FreeBSD as well. They are both Unix-like O.S. -Zhihui On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Phat Pham wrote: > Hi, > > I install FreeBSD 4.1 at minimal installation option > and after all, I got 90MB in / and /usr. > Do you know any way that can tune this kernel to > smaller size? > > Do you know any book or reference documentation that > describes more details about FreeBSD KERNEL and each > software component in FreeBSD such as the > functionality of /bin, /sbin, ... > > I'm new to FreeBSD. > After a while working with it, I like it; however, > it's difficult to find out book and document relates > to it. > > I would like to learn more. > > Any help is appreciated. > Thanks for your help and your time. > > Sincerely, > > > Phat Pham. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message