Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:37:22 -0400 From: Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make the kernel small, smaller, smallest? Message-ID: <20030424173722.GB66567@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> In-Reply-To: <200304241719.h3OHJOq24455@mailgate5.cinetic.de> References: <200304241719.h3OHJOq24455@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
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* Rodrigo Readi <scire@web.de> [2003-04-24 13:19]: > Thanks for your answers to my previous posting. Manuels's Article about > minibsd contains indeed a lot of interesting matters, but it is > unfortunately not for my purpose: I want a minimal FreeBSD in one, at > most two, floppies that allows me to start an Xserver over a > NFS. PicoBSD is more for my purposes, thanks Bruce for your notes. For a diskless X server article see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/index.html Or, since you already have a working network, perhaps you would be better off booting over the network- see Alfred Perlsteins PXE boot article at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html > > Now I have a new question: how to build a very small kernel? Today I > threw a lot away from the GENERIG config file, but inspite of it, it > compiled a lot of functions (modules?) that dont seem usefull to > me. At the end I had a little more than 2MB, gzipped a half of it. I > put it in my bootfloppy with the loader, and booted from it, the > machine asked for a device with the root directory, and I put a floppy > with sh, init and getty, but it hang (perhaps I forgot login). Then I > tried with oinit of picobsd, but the process died (error "signal > 6"). Am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks, Rodrigo. > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > UNICEF bittet um Spenden fur die Kinder im Irak! Hier online an > UNICEF spenden: https://spenden.web.de/unicef/special/?mc=021101 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-small@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-small > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-small-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > jpb ===
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