From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 05:25:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1868B16A4E4 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:25:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wolf.bytecraft.au.com (wolf.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC39A43D5C for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:25:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com) Received: from svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com ([10.0.0.4]) by wolf.bytecraft.au.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5F5PCL8081775; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:25:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com) Received: from wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Not Verified[10.0.0.3]) by svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com with MailMarshal (v5,0,3,78) id ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:25:12 +1000 Received: from [10.0.17.42] (wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com [10.0.17.42]) by wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89F63F0F; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:25:11 +1000 (EST) From: Murray Taylor To: Joe Schmoe In-Reply-To: <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Bytecraft Systems Message-Id: <1087277110.34774.58.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:25:11 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org cc: Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:25:21 -0000 On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:04, Joe Schmoe wrote: > > Murray Taylor wrote: > Google for minibsd > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > > I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143 > quite successfully > > mjt > > > Thanks - this is interesting. However, this is still somewhat > of a brute force method for piecing things together - I > thought there was some kind of elegant mechanism where you > could edit make.conf or something, so that when you did a make > world, it would skip the components that you didn't want to - > and you could control it with much more granularity than you > can in the custom menu in sysinstall ... does this sound > familiar at all ? > > > > That is, forget that I am doing solid state / flash at all - > what is the correct way to install FreeBSD without things like > ppp, isdn, and other pieces of the _base_ system that you > don't want ? > > > > thanks. Not that I am aware of... But if you start with /etc, /bin and /sbin you are probably on the right track see man hier(7) cheers mjt -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ****************************************************************