From owner-freebsd-small Thu Nov 16 11:10:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2610537B4CF for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA28074; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:10:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:10:24 -0600 From: Tim Tsai To: Warner Losh Cc: Pico BSD Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CF cards Message-ID: <20001116131024.A27971@futuresouth.com> References: <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> <200011161906.MAA67585@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011161906.MAA67585@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:06:53PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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