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
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