From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jul 5 13:24:36 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 3B97937B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.samuelstn.dhs.org (h24-64-81-248.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.81.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E12543E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyschow@shaw.ca) Received: (qmail 44448 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2002 20:24:33 -0000 Received: from firewall (HELO SAMCHOW1.ca.nortel.com) (192.168.1.1) by homeserver with SMTP; 5 Jul 2002 20:24:33 -0000 Message-ID: <000f01c22461$f662e860$2784412f@ca.nortel.com> From: "Samuel Chow" To: "Manuel Kasper" Cc: References: <001a01c22443$91de50f0$5b00a8c0@CNMKA> Subject: Re: Perhaps a new "distribution"? Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:24:28 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 > It would be cool if a more detailed choice could be made > during installation, say up to a granularity where you > can decide whether or not you want Perl, or gcc, or > sendmail, etc. That would render my guide almost > obsolete, however. There are certain things only required in a small/embedded environment, such as: 1. Dynamic linking of /sbin and /bin 2. Mounting / readonly 3. Picking *exactly* the binaries to install 4. Special make flags to reduce library dependencies These issues will not and cannot be dealt with by the default installer. --- Samuel Chow cyschow@shaw.ca This message is displayed using recycled electrons. Segmentation Fault (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message