Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:30:07 +1000 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? Message-ID: <1087259406.34774.16.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> In-Reply-To: <20040615001408.69754.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040615001408.69754.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com>
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Google for minibsd http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143 quite successfully mjt On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:14, Joe Schmoe wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to fit a FreeBSD 4.10 system (not pico or anything like that) onto a 16 megabyte IDE flash drive. I am having reasonable success doing this ... I load FreeBSD with sysinstall onto a normal hard drive, then boot it up and start deleting a lot of things and stripping out things, and when I am done I tar it all up and then put it onto the flash drive with the FIXIT floppy. > > > > So far so good. The problem is, my methods for paring down the system are extremely brutish. Basically I use the custom menu in sysinstall and only install a bare minimum of items, but even then I have a ton of garbage on the system that I never needed, and certainly never selected in sysinstall - but they are part of the base system so I get them anyway. Files having to do with ISDN and PPP and all sorts of libraries, etc. > > So I basically just walk around the system deleting everything that looks like it is unneeded - sometimes going so far as: > > > > find / -name '*ppp*' -delete > > > > Is there a better strategy ? Is there some rational way I can get an even more minimal install than the minimal install I create from the custom menu in sysinstall ? That is, instead of deciding that I don't need PPP, and then going around deleting everything to do with PPP, is there a way to just not have PPP installed in the first place ? > > > > thanks. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-small@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-small > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-small-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > **************************************************************** > This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. > **************************************************************** -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ****************************************************************
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