From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 1 23:46:46 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 5D68737B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:46:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ddba033.netstream.ch (ddba033.netstream.ch [62.65.128.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD1F43E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mk@neon1.net) Received: from CNMKA (wg.mtfsg.ch [80.238.135.122]) by ddba033.netstream.ch (8.11.1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g626kcL33084 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:46:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "Manuel Kasper" To: Subject: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:45:39 +0200 Message-ID: <000201c22194$171e66e0$8c7da8c0@CNMKA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 Hi all, I've just finished my guide on how to strip FreeBSD of "unnecessary" things without going as minimalistic as e.g. PicoBSD. I wanted something in between a FreeBSD "minimal" install (which still takes up about 80 MB) and PicoBSD. If you're interested, it's available on http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html I now have FreeBSD 4.6 running on my net4501 embedded PC from Soekris Engineering (on which the guide is based); the operating system takes up about 31 MB on the 64 MB CF card (including frills like perl, thttpd, dhcpd, ...); without perl it works out to about 21 MB - so there's ample space left for user data. I've tried not to sacrifice any important funcionality, and so you can ssh/ftp in like on a normal FreeBSD system, and most commands are available. I welcome any suggestions/feedback on how this guide could be improved. Greets, Manuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message