Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:41:14 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050308214114.GA31879@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <200503082042.j28KgUv17252@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <422E0950.4010400@p6m7g8.com> <200503082042.j28KgUv17252@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:42:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a stripped down > > version in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried sometime > > around 5.0 to do this it was up to about 90MB > > That's a really stripped down installation though. I once stripped down 4.7 to under 10 MB then another 10 MB of Apache & extensions, and another 10 MB of Perl. My stripping technique was not to remove that which was unneeded but to add only that which was needed, drawn from a chroot'ed custom build which dynamically linked items such as /bin/sh which are normally statically linked so that they work when /usr/lib isn't available. Wasn't an issue for this application as everything went on as single read-only filesystem on a Compact Flash card. Used my list of binaries to extract a list of libraries referenced, then only copied those libraries to my target. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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