From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16:10:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7632637B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 81727 invoked by uid 100); 21 Nov 2001 00:10:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15354.61700.505780.540179@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:10:44 -0600 To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: questions@freebsd.org, paulius@kaktusas.org Subject: Re: installing minimal freebsd In-Reply-To: <15150725@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lowell Gilbert types: > paulius@kaktusas.org (Paulius Bulotas) writes: > > I'm quite new to FreeBSD, and want to ask, is there any way to install only components which I really need (for example, no sendmail, no named, no kerberos and so on)? > No. If it's in the base system (as the first two of those are), you > can't install without it. There is a good argument that those don't > really need to be in the base system in the first place, but nobody > has done the work to unpeel them from the rest of the base system. You might note that just because it's installed doesn't mean it's going to be run. Of the things you list, sendmail is the only one that's run by default. If you want a real minimal distribution, you might look into the picobsd release. I'm not sure what's involved in creating such, but a search of the web site or archives should turn up something. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message