Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:49:12 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NanoBSD and PicoBSD questions Message-ID: <CAPmsJLCBGMeyMvpbQCZ3h9Cjq938CD3QTRQV0rq4snJKpKg-XQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7ded2e5d-5141-4b8d-fed4-c6e3ceecc5ce@nomadlogic.org> References: <CAPmsJLDrvndgnwiQ7OhyZMmBZ3oU-yyA-%2By1HQ0Ps4Tyud=d4Q@mail.gmail.com> <7ded2e5d-5141-4b8d-fed4-c6e3ceecc5ce@nomadlogic.org>
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Hi Pete, Thanks for the info and links which are sure to help. Best Lonnie On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 1:31 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > On 7/17/20 7:12 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am just now coming to FreeBSD over from the Linux world. > > > > In the past,I read a little bit about a 6BM BSD version made from FreeBSd > > called MiniBSD which was only 6MB in size but unfortunately that was for > an > > i386 base and the project seems to be now dead. > > > > I am very interest possibly generating up some in ultra-thin FreeBSD > > versions for the x86_64 (AMD) platform that can be along the same size or > > smaller, of course without an xserver as I am looking into SDL & DirectFB > > to run the GUI single application (no desktop needed) that I want. > > > > On that note, I have also read that FreeBSD has some "tools" that may be > > able to generate versions of PicoBSD (around 2MB) and NanoBSD (??? MB) > so I > > have set up a FreeBSD system so that I can try to generate some ISO's if > > possible. > > > > For this project, an initial FreeBSD, or dialect, being the smaller the > > better with just the absolute bare essentials on it so that I can add > > things as needed. > > > > What I am not sure about here is how to install the FreeBSD tools that > seem > > to have the shell scripts that will generate PicoBSD and NanoBSD. > > > > I would like to be able to download a pre-built ISO of these just to see > > them run before jumping into the effort but cannot find them anywhere. > > This link is a good starting point for nanobsd: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html > > the scripts and configs for nanobsd are part of the source FreeBSD > distribution, so if you checkout the code nanobsd will be available in > $CHECKOUT/tools/tools/nanobsd/ > > This document provides a pretty good overview of the structure of the > project itself (assuming you are interesting in building products based > on FreeBSD): > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.html > > hope this helps get you pointed in the right direction. > > cheers, > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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