From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 11:54:17 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 49B9116A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.oremut02.us.wh.verio.net (gatekeeper.oremut02.us.wh.verio.net [198.65.168.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDB243F75 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcliftATverio.net@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) B78EF1E4DF0 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:54:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7RIsAqa007507; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:54:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from fcliftATverio.net@verio.net) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:54:10 -0600 From: Fred Clift To: John Birrell In-Reply-To: <20030827072610.F249@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: <20030827125128.B16907@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> 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 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 18:54:17 -0000 On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, John Birrell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:28:14PM -0500, Tyler Kellen wrote: > > What I'd really like to know is how to strip down a working system. If ... > > 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 Netbooting with PXE might make this particularly painless (painless after setup - getting pxe boots working is another issue...) man diskless for more information about this -- you can then take your diskless image that you boot and trim _it_ down and repeatedly reboot and have an easy way to put things back (ie you mv them out and back in if you found them necessary). This of course requires 2 machines for development rather than one, but it is fairly convienient. -- Fred Clift - fclift at verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.