Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:54:10 -0600 From: Fred Clift <fcliftATverio.net@verio.net> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 Message-ID: <20030827125128.B16907@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> In-Reply-To: <20030827072610.F249@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <3F4B9BE0.5010209@acm.org> <001a01c36bff$cff9e840$a700000a@TYBOX> <20030827072610.F249@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, John Birrell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:28:14PM -0500, Tyler Kellen wrote: > > What I'd really like to know is how to strip down a working system. If ... > > One way to do this initially is to install a full FreeBSD system on one > disk partition and use a second partition for a trial install. FreeBSD's Netbooting with PXE might make this particularly painless (painless after setup - getting pxe boots working is another issue...) man diskless for more information about this -- you can then take your diskless image that you boot and trim _it_ down and repeatedly reboot and have an easy way to put things back (ie you mv them out and back in if you found them necessary). This of course requires 2 machines for development rather than one, but it is fairly convienient. -- Fred Clift - fclift at verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.
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