From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 13:12:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810F537B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:12:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f11L9Fi14578; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:09:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008201c08c94$739d48f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Daryl Chance" , "FreeBSD Hackers" References: <003901c08b9d$107b0d40$0200000a@mike> <20010131233508.A70852@xor.obsecurity.org> <001b01c08c54$653b4ae0$0200000a@mike> Subject: Re: Moving to KLM's Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:17:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ok, what would be the minimal kernel that i can compile :), > or is there a document somewhere that says that info? We have > LINT, should we make something called MIN for minimal kernel needed to boot? It's not really feasible to create a "minimal" kernal, since "minimal" really depends on your hardware (the most obvious -- do you need ATA or SCSI to boot? which network drivers do you need?) The easiest way to create MIN is to take GENERIC and take out absolutely everything that you don't have or need. I think my best effort so far is on a little 486 gateway box for my home lan which weights in at 1.7MB. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message