Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:43:06 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install Message-ID: <20071002214306.GA928@slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <2b7af7c40710021359j4b49499fi6675b8d122d800d5@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? > > (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires > very, very little) A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. http://www.minibsd.org It needs some practice to get it right, but the results are quite useful when you get it right! Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHArtqixf5fBYiFmoRAnKGAJ9megQ+JqUPPkvCvIIF6rT2lTxCTACfbqxV 6pvq5AJOWdp/qGLRIqmvSYE= =rzhF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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