From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 09:33:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C909116A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo2.cloudnet.com (apollo2.cloudnet.com [209.188.96.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D543D43F75 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tyler@statuo.com) Received: from TYBOX (hidden-user@mtc.cloudnet.com [209.188.99.187] (may be forged)) by apollo2.cloudnet.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7QGXmq0081344 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:33:48 -0500 (CDT) From: "Tyler Kellen" To: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:33:59 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c36bef$da8d1260$a700000a@TYBOX> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:33:50 -0000 Hey all, I'm new to this mailing list and I'm certainly no FreeBSD hacker. I'm hoping one of you can help me out. I'd like to say I am a former linux user, but I'm not there yet. I currently run a linux from scratch box. I'd like to migrate to FreeBSD. I've got a 4.8 minimal install on an extra machine. As an LFS user I find the FreeBSD 4.8 minimal install to be pretty far from minimal. I'm looking for a way to strip down my 4.8 box to nothing but gcc and vi. Unfortunately I don't quite know how to get there. I've checked out the PicoBSD project, the MiniBSD project and the FreeBSD From Scratch projects extensively. I'm not famillar enough with FreeBSD to get any of them up and running the way I want. I'm hoping to end up with an empty system that I can fool around with and learn from the bottom up. The information I'm looking to aquire is the absolute minimum files required to boot FreeBSD 4.8 into multi-user mode. If this involves deleting a massive amount of directories and files, or setting up a new drive and copying only the needed files, I think I can make it work. Can any of you help me out? Or point me to a truly minimal distribution that uses FreeBSD 4.8? Thanks in advance, Tyler