From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 3 13:20:32 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 D096337B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A9243E52 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g63JoD0L035976; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:50:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200207031950.g63JoD0L035976@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Manuel Kasper" Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, "'Howard Jones'" X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) References: <000201c222be$bb946370$5b00a8c0@CNMKA> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 2002 20:23:30 +0200." <000201c222be$bb946370$5b00a8c0@CNMKA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:50:13 -0400 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 Also, don't forget that you can gzip the kernel if you're using /boot/loader during the boostrap process. This gains back a noticable amount of space "for free." I also build all the binaries to be dynamically linked; this is a big space savings as well. My original target was an 8MB compact flash disk, and this was the trick to getting it to fit. I was less worried about things getting corrupted as the system runs with the root filesystem mounted read-only. The current setup that I use is a 32MB compact flash card, with two slices. I alternate between them so I can always easily revert to the previous version if something bad happens when doing an upgrade. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message