Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:56:37 -0400 From: Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to doc available? Message-ID: <8EECB41A-21AA-4023-BBF9-B1FD08A5000F@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0907271605l29775c0epc92c5833aee3a780@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A67EC78.1090304@a1poweruser.com> <1248355625.17716.7.camel@localhost> <e277d6c80907231815v4fd558b8if8576a738152206d@mail.gmail.com> <4A6A96E5.6090900@a1poweruser.com> <4A6DF24F.30008@hdk5.net> <BCDE5738-67AE-4C32-B6C9-991D0939B1DF@olivent.com> <b79ecaef0907271605l29775c0epc92c5833aee3a780@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/7/27 Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com>: >> Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in >> limited >> space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with >> lighttpd >> and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing >> below >> 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever the >> smallest >> I can get away with. >> >> Thanks, in advance. >> >> Cheers. >> m >> > > I'm going to try to answer your question rather than tell you you're > wrong. It's possible, and not difficult. > > Option 1) I'm pretty sure a default install of FreeBSD covers a little > less than 640 MB; have you just tried that? > > [chris@amnesiac]/usr% df -h / > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 421M 203M 185M 52% / > [chris@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc /boot/xboxkern.0/ > 112M /boot/xboxkern.0/ > 112M total > [chris@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc bin include lib sbin share games libdata > > <snip> > > 292M share/doc > > <snip> > > 428M total > [chris@amnesiac]/usr% > > So, excluding /usr/share/doc, and /boot/xboxkern.0 (a leftover from > when amnesiac was an xbox), my install with no ports etc is > ~203-112=91MB for /, 428-292=136MB for /usr, plus /var and /tmp (both > minimal if properly managed and trimmed) makes <~250 MB; way less than > the 500 MB specified. You could probably even install Apache on that! > > If I've missed anything glaringly obvious, please correct me > someone.... > > Option 2) Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/ > index.html > > Chris > Chris, Thank you for your detailed answer. Most appreciated as is the URL to nanobsd so that I can RTFM... Cheers, m!
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