From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 09:19:50 2003 Return-Path: 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 897C916A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.numachi.com (meisai.numachi.com [198.175.254.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E70EC43F3F for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 18164 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 16:19:47 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by meisai.numachi.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2003 16:19:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 25063 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Aug 2003 16:19:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:19:47 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: John Birrell Message-ID: <20030827161947.GS360@numachi.com> References: <3F4B9BE0.5010209@acm.org> <001a01c36bff$cff9e840$a700000a@TYBOX> <20030827072610.F249@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030827072610.F249@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Tyler Kellen cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:19:50 -0000 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:26:10AM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > One way to do this initially is to install a full FreeBSD system on one > disk partition and use a second partition for a trial install. FreeBSD's > boot manager will let you boot into each. As I'm pursuing these matters as well, I've found that mucking with jails is faster, for a lot of bulk work. Starting/stopping a jail is _much_ quicker than reboots. (And it's a lot easier to reset a jail to a prior state.) This won't exercise the rc* scripts, but will let you quickly test for dependancies elsewhere. And whatever you find for dependancies, please document them somewhere; I still have a fantasy of 'deconstructing' FreeBSD into finer-grained packages... > -- > John Birrell > _______________________________________________ -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large