From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 04:58:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9E8106564A for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33328FC08 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so2601865fxm.13 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:58:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=BH7gKUsNKOwVbm96xeKRIcUWVITSVF1TbPkoGYAMSh4=; b=OCLoH2rLYSV5gy3FK+JZ5VWvYexQMngM/aBFALCZKLMsXhdo1aJmCirYZ8Lbze+kiW yIxS9BzTUJ2wQMOdK+Teux+zAkVcHQH7sYjk3d88t171NLdtr5oPicQQOVNMtSYXYeUO Zo9rUY5Y+WoANWZDfOD4lb/N/VfnVHodDepsc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=aOa5SqP3w0gT8I/Hot8E8QlnpnoWBqfg3+7B/37uZ9yCAN/XwKmya8X0XOUi/JOkn3 eNW2+Mx98vFReoCHu2DPRminvJ1qu4eLGi+la6Z/B0YZt9POWQuvcHIRu1v2RioAVqRd xiTxfgHTF+hBYObocF24olWv1RTsIZ3QqoZ74= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.69 with SMTP id u5mr1188302faq.32.1284181102705; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.57.20 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:58:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C8AFDF6.5030205@speakeasy.net> References: <4C8AF124.5050808@cyberleo.net> <4C8AFDF6.5030205@speakeasy.net> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:58:22 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: "Jason C. Wells" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: CyberLeo Kitsana , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel replacement in installation media 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: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:58:24 -0000 On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote > > I do believe you can omit the *.symbols files. I plan to try it myself. > Would someone please confirm this? > Yes you can remove them safely. > > And you might look at resurrecting the picobsd method of crunching binaries > into one single statically linked binary with hard links of differing file > names if you want to get really small. I used to do this when compactflash > was only 128MiB. > /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/ /usr/src/tools/tools/tinybsd/ -- Adam Vande More