From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 18 11:14:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADE937B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:14:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from claire.namodn.com (namodn.com [209.0.100.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7CD43ED4 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkj@namodn.com) Received: from nkj by claire.namodn.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Oje4-0002QA-00; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:14:16 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:14:16 -0800 From: Nick Jennings To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimizing base-system size Message-ID: <20021218111416.F5109@namodn.com> References: <20021218110928.D5109@namodn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021218110928.D5109@namodn.com>; from nkj@namodn.com on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:09:28AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:09:28AM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently I installed FreeBSD on an old 486/DX100 with a very small hard > drive. I am planning to use it as a little bookshelf firewall to > replace my p200 tower which just takes up too much space. I forgot to mention this is a *laptop* (i.e. mobile device), therefore please to not regard this as an off-topic post. I also am going to be dealing with smaller and smaller disk space restraints as I delve deeper into FreeBSD on mobile devices, so the information I requested here shoud help out others who are in similar situations of space restrictions. - Nick Jennings > At first I didn't think about system size, I re-built the basesystem > with nothing disabled in the make.conf > > Now I am realizing I need to make this system smaller, I've disabled > several things in the make.conf: > > NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND > NO_FORTRAN= true # do not build g77 and related libraries > NO_I4B= true # do not build isdn4bsd package > NO_LPR= true # do not build lpr and related programs > NO_SENDMAIL= true # do not build sendmail and related programs > NOPROFILE= true # Avoid compiling profiled libraries > NOUUCP= true # do not build uucp related programs > > And I'd like to rebuild the system & remove everything that is from > the original build. Is there a supported way to do this? > > Any ideas appreciated. > > - Nick Jennings > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message