From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 04:48:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17ACC16A4CF for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:48:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cruzio.com (dsl3-63-249-85-132.cruzio.com [63.249.85.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2B843D39 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:48:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from mail.cruzio.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5F4mpF3001303; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by mail.cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5F4mprK001302; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:48:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200406150448.i5F4mprK001302@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org cc: non_secure@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:48:10 -0000 Hi, re: > I would like to fit a FreeBSD 4.10 system (not pico or > anything like that) onto a 16 megabyte IDE flash drive. and > I thought there was some kind of elegant mechanism > where you could edit make.conf or something, ... You may be thinking of nanobsd in the -CURRENT tools: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd (no doc but the source (makefile really) is pretty simple.) See also: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2782+0+archive/2004/freebsd-small/20040314.freebsd-small And perhaps also the discussion on: http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2004/freebsd-small/20040314.freebsd-small.html - bruce