From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 2 22: 7: 1 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 3848137B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gehicks.dyndns.org (adsl-20-181-84.asm.bellsouth.net [66.20.181.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E25B43E31 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Received: from mac (mac [10.0.0.13]) by gehicks.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g635EJZZ011251 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:14:20 GMT (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 01:06:56 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) From: W Gerald Hicks To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 12:10 AM, Darren Pilgrim wrote: [snips] > 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. Libraries residing in a linked-in MD_ROOT_IMAGE are available whenever the kernel is but it still seems more space efficient for a small handful of boot-critical programs to be crunch-linked. Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message