From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 9:56: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sunsecure.net (sunsecure.net [208.136.254.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9A237B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jshenry@localhost) by sunsecure.net (8.11.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9PGpdx75996 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:51:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:51:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Seth Henry X-Sender: To: Subject: Minumum installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone had any experience with minimal installs/set-top box configurations? I am interested in configuring a set-top box system, and have a 128Mb IDE flash memory device. Unfortunately, the base install is bigger than this, so I've tried manually building an installation on the disk using a second hard disk. I copied all of the contents of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin as well as /etc and a few other folders for home directories. I then created /dev and its device links and finished up by creating a folder for the /proc filesystem. This seems to work, until it gets time to launch the init's, at which point getty fails - and I can't login. It also results in a file system that is quite large. I'm sure a lot of that stuff can be removed. I have an NFS server (also running FreeBSD) that I plan to mount while building code for the device - so I simply need the boot disk (or module in this case) to hold only the code necessary to boot FreeBSD into a working mode. Does anyone know how to build a working FreeBSD system on such a small drive? Has anyone done it, and kept good notes? :) Thanks, Seth Henry jshenry@net-noise.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message