From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 05:27:31 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 D8FA416A417 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857F713C478 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so332159nzf for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:27:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=YSaQWGnCGAvGvBG1Plr/iPsGvm+pYFm7OGz0fJNhJ+k=; b=ghDr1gNgjQsm7Si7Wv/JTR1xavGJXX0BKM8fqsfAjhghf2vzft46tvFAw0SDo5pFEl7SLKdmXqdsDSxGuRSZRGZC+KzRaN9MtzpPXWuMUfGBbX/kYusIgRVCQWegnpI5lSsTc3/HxqCqzQ3FNaUn1s8OwMeALahMBORyM1AyoRA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=awJkb8dfn0VbSLYINZ5iEWCgqSCecOD5sCdKZBaITZN2jgKDj7AHFIZiKB0xb7zXIQMiIA2M56R6FLVP6I//umJG1BHBEzKOCs+JDBPa48AimoCa4llPR5GbgsxGlVMd4cimYHc69zgRbgy6CgJcUTyVEmLvXDB7eE4xZGPrmpk= Received: by 10.142.212.19 with SMTP id k19mr2405146wfg.1191560384845; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.163.21 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:59:44 +0800 From: "Daniel Marsh" To: "Tim Judd" In-Reply-To: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 05:27:32 -0000 On 10/5/07, Tim Judd wrote: > > 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. http://www.minibsd.org/ -> but claims it'll fit in 16mb flash, not 8mb. There was an openbsd fork(?) that was along the lines of a pure packet filter and only a packet filter... stripped to the bare minimum needed to fit on a flash device. It was shipped with a 486dx2 66, 64mb ram, 3/4 nics... you could download the OS itself and install it on any old machine you wanted... but if only I could remember the name...