From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 2 21:10:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06CE37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1995F43E09 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:10:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6597471DA; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4B5FFD6; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D22792E.C88EBD20@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 21:10:22 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: Manuel Kasper , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) References: <000201c22194$171e66e0$8c7da8c0@CNMKA> <20020702211153.B1160@grosbein.pp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:45:39AM +0200, Manuel Kasper wrote: > > > I've just finished my guide on how to strip FreeBSD of "unnecessary" > > things without going as minimalistic as e.g. PicoBSD. I wanted something > > in between a FreeBSD "minimal" install (which still takes up about 80 > > MB) and PicoBSD. If you're interested, it's available on > > > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > > Great work! > > Btw, you can save some space of /bin and /sbin - commands residing here > are built static by defaut. That's unnesessary and you can get > shared binaries using echo 'NOSHARED=yes' >>/etc/make.conf and rebuilding. As long as you realize that if a /bin or /sbin program can't run due to missing/corrupt libraries that you may or may not be able to even boot single-user. At the very least, /bin/sh, /sbin/mount, /sbin/init, and /sbin/fsck should be static builds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message