From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 18:42:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE1C16A42A for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:42:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@schultznet.ca) Received: from dfw002.8inet.com (dfw002.8inet.com [72.232.12.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8983143D46 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:42:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@schultznet.ca) Received: from [206.162.187.199] (helo=[172.22.100.67]) by dfw002.8inet.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1F3dyo-00060s-Kd for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:42:22 -0500 Message-ID: <43DE5E0A.1090806@schultznet.ca> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:42:18 -0500 From: Eric Schultz Organization: SchultzNet.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: eric@cameron-schultz.ca,eric@schultznet.ca,schultzn X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dfw002.8inet.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - schultznet.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: What functionality is provided by minimal install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:42:24 -0000 Good afternoon... I did a minimal install from a 4.7 mini disc (yes 4.7, but this question could be quite generic) and I was wondering what I got. I know from the sysintall help that a Minimal install is "just the base system." But what _functionality_ is provided by a *base system*??? I did an ls -lR from the root of my machine after the installation to see what files I got. I also added the man pages distribution, did another ls -lR, then added the ports collection and did a third ls -lR (this one was over 4 MBs, time to see if gzip is included with Minimal!!!). So I can lookup what files I got each time; and I figure I can /man/ every file /bin, /sbin, /whatever/bin but I was hoping that might already be documented somewhere. So far Googling and searching gmane.org have not shown-up anything like what I'm looking for (The Handbook's section 2.6 does not provide any detail either). Can anyone point me to a source? Or let me know what I should do with that info if I end-up compiling it myself? Thanks. -- Headed for the second star to the right and straight on 'til morning... Eric Schultz (aka Storkman) Photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/schultznet Homepage: http://www.schultznet.ca Blog: http://schultznet.blogspot.com/