Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:35:06 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: simon@freebsd.org Cc: jhs@berklix.org, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's our standard "stripped-down FreeBSD" tool? Message-ID: <20070726.113506.1689681908.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070725105930.GC1524@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200707242352.43948.ogautherot@vtr.net> <200707250931.l6P9VgeB088253@fire.js.berklix.net> <20070725105930.GC1524@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> writes:
: On 2007.07.25 11:31:42 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
:
: > "How long is a piece of string" ;-) ie likely depends what size
: > flash drive is ! My impression (non user) is Freesbie aims CD size,
: > whereas Nano or Tiny aim [a lot] smaller ?
: >
: > man nanobsd:
: > doesnt quote a typical size but does have SEE ALSO picobsd
: > man picobsd:
: > "which typically fits on a small media such as a floppy disk"
: > "The biggest problem is determining what will fit on the floppies"
: >
: > Suggestion: run them, generate images & use send-pr to report approx
: > default sizes to be included in manuals so we know for future.
:
: Default sizes for nanobsd in default config is 2 x normal FreeBSD size
: + ~5MB, but of course you need to set the size of your flash. You can
: get it on to a 128MB flash with a config file which excludes stuff
: like toolchain etc. without much trouble. The interesting size really
: is with a config file like this.
:
: 64MB requires more work, but is possible.
I think I once generated a TinyBSD image on the order or 20M.
However, I lost the config files to do that in a disk crash...
Warner
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