From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 08:17:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA14384 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 08:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14354 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 08:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Wed, 1 May 96 17:16 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id ; Wed, 1 May 96 17:16 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24583; Wed, 1 May 96 10:30:04 +0200 Date: Wed, 1 May 96 10:30:04 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9605010830.AA24583@wavehh.hanse.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? Newsgroups: hanse-ml.freebsd.questions References: <199604262212.PAA28056@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199604291208.MAA02545@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > Perhaps just for the fun of it, I was trying to figure out what could >> > be the smallest kernel I could get for a diskless system. >> > By removing most things I managed to a 544.319 bytes kernel >> > (some 70KB are symbols), although this has FFS and no WD/FD driver. >> > NFS instead of FFS requires 100KB more. Some hints to reduce kernel size are availiable from my homepage. http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/bsd-shrink-kernel.html Happy hacking Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer - BSD User Group Hamburg BSD, Lisp and other programming info http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer