From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 28 00:56:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E671065672 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:56:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from mail.olivent.com (mail.olivent.com [69.31.85.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007818FC1A for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from [172.16.1.8] ([68.195.158.255]) (authenticated user mikel@olivent.com) by mail.olivent.com (Kerio MailServer 6.7.0) (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128 bits)); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:56:36 -0400 Message-Id: <8EECB41A-21AA-4023-BBF9-B1FD08A5000F@olivent.com> From: Mikel King To: utisoft@gmail.com In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:56:37 -0400 References: <4A67EC78.1090304@a1poweruser.com> <1248355625.17716.7.camel@localhost> <4A6A96E5.6090900@a1poweruser.com> <4A6DF24F.30008@hdk5.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to doc available? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:56:39 -0000 On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/7/27 Mikel King : >> 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 > > > > 292M share/doc > > > > 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!