From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jul 13 16: 1:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5664537B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:01:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6DN1rr36119; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:01:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200107132301.f6DN1rr36119@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Kozubik Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: embedded freeBSD document (DoC, ATA-CF) available References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:27:12 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:01:53 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have written and made available to the FreeBSD documentation project a > document on installing and running FreeBSD in embedded environments. I've built a small FreeBSD-based firewall/NAT box which runs fairly comfortably from an 8MB compact flash card. Two techniques which gain back a bunch of space are: - gzip the kernel, since /boot/loader can uncompress it as it loads. Big win here. - build all of the programs which are usually staticly link to use shared libraries instead. This gains back a bunch of space as well. Since everything lives in a single partition, it's not like the dynamic linker isn't going to be there. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message