Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:18:29 -0700 (PDT) From: p d <pddeals@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: decompressing executable before using Message-ID: <20020618221829.99039.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020618211917.GE84123@dan.emsphone.com>
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Hi! do you think ... /usr/share .. can be safely removed ... because it has locale and stuff ... I have never used it ... but I dont know if it is required for commercial products ... and also modules ... because even they take up a lot of space ... thanks -pranav --- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 18), p d said: > > Hi! > > I did look at picoBSD ... but the problem is I > have > > to use the freebsd that comes with a software I am > > planning to run .. its a caching software ... so > at > > the most I can recompile the kernel ... or strip > down > > the system ... I did get it down to 170M ... but I > > have to fit it on a 128M flash ... so I was > thinking > > if the libraries and the executables get > compressed > > ... it might do the job ... > > You should be able to fit a minimal FreeBSD install > in under 100 MB > easily. Install only /bin, /sbin, /etc, > /usr/{bin,sbin,lib,libexec}, > then rip out stuff you don't need. You can probably > get rid of 2 dozen > files in /bin and /sbin and free up 5 MB; same for > lib and libexec. > Remove all static libs, remove gcc, perl, etc etc. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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