Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:06:51 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tim Judd <tjudd2k@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: minimal install is too big Message-ID: <200710051207.07122.amistry@am-productions.biz> In-Reply-To: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <173981.50407.qm@web62415.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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--nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 05 October 2007, Tim Judd wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently, for pure entertainment and a little bit of a experience > thing, I have been looking and/or finding many devices that have > linux embedded. While in of itself the fact that it works, I'm not > discounting. But I'd like to expand it or get it running on a > system that I am familiar with. So I was playing with the idea of > using FreeBSD on such devices, and I would deal with the individual > hardware specs if I could get the general system small enough. > > The minimal install of FreeBSD as from the developers is about > 130MB. I want to get something working on a 8MB flash. (For those > curious, it's a ethernet NAS device) Checkout FreeNAS and Monowall. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHBmErxqA5ziudZT0RAm+mAJwMChsaupns6nFcYzNOsrjYddYsAwCeNRFT 6iaZ7HL/3paIthHXlAUHjJo= =tGZ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5957283.FrTbpSfjxq--
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