From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 06:53:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD9216A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 06:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9719343D5C for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 06:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BBwRL-0002f9-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:53:04 +0200 Received: from dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.76.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:53:03 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:53:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:54:26 -0400 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <200404041317.I34DHQLD058095@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040310 MultiZilla/1.6.3.0d X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja In-Reply-To: <200404041317.I34DHQLD058095@asarian-host.net> Sender: news Subject: Re: When I'm all done.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:53:06 -0000 Mark wrote: > For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after > the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything > needed, at runtime, from those directories? You have a couple of options for creating small "emergency" disks: 1] The "Live" CD is precisely for that - booting from in an emergency. 2] See the following entries on my blog for links to small distros: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000037.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000028.html And PicoBSD, a 3.0 FreeBSD that can be put on a single floppy! http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000043.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/