Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:45:32 +0300 From: Claudiu Chirita <klaudiu@terrasat.ro> To: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? Message-ID: <40CEA91C.2010301@terrasat.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040615073217.GA20038@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <1087259406.34774.16.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com> <20040615073217.GA20038@aoi.wolfpond.org>
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I think you need this: http://www.thinbsd.org/ Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > >>Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> wrote: >>Google for minibsd >> >>http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html >> >>Thanks - this is interesting. However, this is still somewhat of a brute force method for piecing things together - I thought there was some kind of elegant mechanism where you could edit make.conf or something, so that when you did a make world, it would skip the components that you didn't want to - and you could control it with much more granularity than you can in the custom menu in sysinstall ... does this sound familiar at all ? >> >>That is, forget that I am doing solid state / flash at all - what is the correct way to install FreeBSD without things like ppp, isdn, and other pieces of the _base_ system that you don't want ? > > > You have to edit /etc/make.conf and add NO_xxx lines in it (look in > /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf). > > In addition, I use custom CFLAGS when possible. Sometimes -Os produces > broken code (X11 comes to mind). > > My /etc/make.conf looks like this: > > CFLAGS=-Os -march=c3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > NO_ACPI=yes > NO_CVS=true > [more NO_xxx lines] > > I then install the new world in a separate directory: > > make world DESTDIR=/itx > > But even though this procedure gives a minimal system, it is too big > for my requirements (FreeBSD + X11 + rdesktop in 16MB). I am still forced > to pick and choose components by hand. >
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