From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 00:40:22 2004 Return-Path: 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 9101316A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:40:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1511443D55 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:40:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5I0besp043162; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:37:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:37:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040617.183758.77321981.imp@bsdimp.com> To: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1087368575.35868.21.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> References: <20040615.234508.12220305.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040615.235310.29962573.imp@bsdimp.com> <1087368575.35868.21.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chad@dcfinc.com cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org cc: non_secure@yahoo.com cc: taylorm@bytecraft.au.com Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:40:22 -0000 In message: <1087368575.35868.21.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> Murray Taylor writes: : Ok ok so I'm only a green belt wizard who is more than happy with the : vanilla flavour that I create .... ;-p (and no I dont have X installed : (yet) on the CF) We have X11 installed in about 16-18MB. It is hard for me to know because we install X11 and a bunch of toolkits which makes it hard to know what the smallest size we need. : Having bashed picoBSD around several years ago, I am much happier with : the miniBSD structure as all the standard programs are there : _unmodified_. Me too. That's why we use this rather than a picobsd based system. Warner