Date: 18 Dec 2002 15:09:49 -0600 From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimizing base-system size Message-ID: <1040245786.14935.23.camel@natewks2.ad.newisys.com> In-Reply-To: <20021218110928.D5109@namodn.com> References: <20021218110928.D5109@namodn.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] you can also do a `make installmost` instead of a `make world` to make the base system smaller, though I've never done that myself. /ayn On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 13:09, 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. > > 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 -- andrew y ng <ayn@andrewng.com> http://andrewng.com gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 9bfc594c fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+AOQavtjogpv8WUwRAr/GAJ4hKzwNy3lATBWoNINIFy+qHdbGXQCfc3xn zv/oDFFpupBqhOiuzXAZOog= =KvXK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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