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> Base system components are not registered with the package
> system, and are installed monolithically.  This means that
> you can't omit them in a particular installation.

I am just experimenting with installing FreeBSD
on smaller harddrive.  I have a script that does
(basically) the following:

${INSTDEST} is the mount point for the small harddrive
${KERNELNAME} is the kernel config file

make DESTDIR=${INSTDEST} hierarchy
foreach i ( list of things to build )
  cd /usr/src/$i
  make -DNOPROFILE -DNOMAN -DNOINFO depend
  make -DNOPROFILE -DNOMAN -DNOINFO
  make DESTDIR=${INSTDEST} -DNOPROFILE -DNOMAN \
    -DNOINFO install
end

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
/usr/sbin/config $KERNELNAME
make -DNO_MODULES depend
make -DNO_MODULES
make DESTDIR=${INSTDEST} -DNO_MODULES install

cd /usr/src/etc
make DESTDIR=${INSTDEST} -DNOMAN -DNO_SENDMAIL -DNO_UUCP \
  distribution

Now, if you choose your "lists of things to build"[1]
to include everything /etc/rc* requires, and if you
disklabel your harddrive right, you can definitely boot 
from your new harddrive.  I personally get to a point 
where I can actually login to the system.  Right now, I 
have a ipfw & natd system that needs about 16 MB of
disk space.

[1] It must include sys/boot for the loader, 
libexec/rtld-elf for the dynamic linker.



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