From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 16:03:02 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 500A316A41B for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8E013C48A for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:03:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (adsl-68-75-31-16.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net [68.75.31.16]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l95G3i2H048985 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:03:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) From: Anish Mistry Organization: AM Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:06:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710051207.07122.amistry@am-productions.biz> Cc: Tim Judd 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 16:03:02 -0000 --nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 05 October 2007, 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) Checkout FreeNAS and Monowall. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHBmErxqA5ziudZT0RAm+mAJwMChsaupns6nFcYzNOsrjYddYsAwCeNRFT 6iaZ7HL/3paIthHXlAUHjJo= =tGZ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq--