Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:10:24 -0600 From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Pico BSD <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CF cards Message-ID: <20001116131024.A27971@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <200011161906.MAA67585@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:06:53PM -0700 References: <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> <200011161906.MAA67585@harmony.village.org>
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Is this script something you can share? I was hoping to avoid re-inventing the wheel (I am lazy, I know. ;-) Thanks, Tim On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:06:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> Tim Tsai writes: > : I have a system with a 32MB CF card (FreeBSD sees it as a small ATA device) > : and am wondering if somebody has already done some work on putting a small > : live filesystem on it (vs. the PicoBSD approach which is to compress > : everything and load from RAM). The card is too small for me to do a > : minimal installation but seems to be big enough where I don't need to use > : the MFS approach and eat up RAM. I'd prefer to just have FreeBSD boot > : from a live filesystem on the CF directly. > > We do this all the time at Timing Solutions. I have a subsetting > script that will put our "base" system down on the CF and it takes up > about 8MB of that. Some utilities could be axed and get the total > down to about 6-7M. X is another 8M if you want the things that we > want. > > Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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