From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 13 9:12:55 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 756DC37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:12:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [209.63.227.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A0343E4A for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from homer.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18C13Z-000INV-00; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:12:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3DD2994E.65F078E7@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:26:22 -0800 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: justin.wojdacki@analog.com Cc: Rich Morin , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com> 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 Justin Wojdacki wrote: > > Rich Morin wrote: > > > > My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a > > single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had > > functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the > > overhead a great deal. > > If you're seriously interested in this, take a look at busybox. > > http://busybox.lineo.org > > Not sure how compatible the licensing is for FreeBSD base software > though. BusyBox is essentialy what crunchgen does, though with crunchgen you get the full-featured FreeBSD versions of commands, not the stripped-down sometimes functionless versions in BusyBox. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message