From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 12 23:51: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B38C37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5893043E42 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAD7oupk074540; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:50:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:50:50 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021113.005050.117280590.imp@bsdimp.com> To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just link bin and sbin dynamically when I want to make a small image. Works great, no hacks needed so long as / and /usr are the same partition, which they are on the CF's I make. A minimally bootable FreeBSD system is on the order of 6MB uncompressed. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message