From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 04:37:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBCD16A417 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:37:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjudd2k@yahoo.com) Received: from web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.75.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB0E613C458 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:37:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjudd2k@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 58700 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Oct 2007 04:11:14 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=ORogDfH9dh4H24uzTpUvxNUhMJSN9adup4tOmA7/KaBdFr1AiTTOmF4oz07vB66msZD/ewmG0TyDmb4QhVH8Us7p2aebP0v8WvvKRqkxdbr/jf+31w2SdLGyd3awfJrZVT4Fsv1ElwqY3aw2+tPG1/RlFmuRJcdvNuw9umM6kgQ=; X-YMail-OSG: R1FhlV8VM1kYVwzk1rOMO72hQScHvsMNofby5g4MBL7aCA9S4RpWZ60GqZvShEoCAtDNClY00B0tPGlaNSHr0mWmmd5fLHPz1JwuuF7zDuSQHtVXXE.zZe8yQNv5yA-- Received: from [76.113.22.52] by web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:11:14 PDT Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:11:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Judd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Subject: minimal install is too big X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:37:56 -0000 Hi all, Recently, for pure entertainment and a little bit of a experience thing, I have been looking and/or finding many devices that have linux embedded. While in of itself the fact that it works, I'm not discounting. But I'd like to expand it or get it running on a system that I am familiar with. So I was playing with the idea of using FreeBSD on such devices, and I would deal with the individual hardware specs if I could get the general system small enough. The minimal install of FreeBSD as from the developers is about 130MB. I want to get something working on a 8MB flash. (For those curious, it's a ethernet NAS device) picobsd is discontinued, nanobsd claims it can fit in 64MB. I'd even go with some NetBSD flavor, as long as it's not "linux." I've done some research and would like to see this happen, but may just end up using the GPL code from Linksys to get it working as I need it to. Thanks for any update/idea/clue. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. "I can" is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469