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Tony Li wrote:
> 
>    Yes, they are small, but even a 4MB card is plent to run routing services
>    off of.  There are several FreeBSD distributions out there that are
>    "router floppies", where you fit everything you need onto a 1.4MB disk
>    (except for gated, which is our problem).  So you'd be in heaven with 4MB.
> 
> Well, you're better than I am.  ;-) In trying to get kernel, gated, basic
> Unix utilities, and remote access utilties (what, you wanna WALK to your
> router?) into a single place, I came up a wee bit bigger.
> 
> In any case the flash disks run up to 190MB or so.  Enough for a
> distribution, but not enough to have things vanilla.
> 
> Tony

Use 'crunch' like the boot floppy does.
you can fit almost the whole of /bin, and /usr/bin in 4MB using that.