Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:25:11 +1000 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: Murray Taylor <taylorm@bytecraft.au.com> Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? Message-ID: <1087277110.34774.58.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> In-Reply-To: <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:04, Joe Schmoe wrote: > > Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> wrote: > Google for minibsd > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > > I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143 > quite successfully > > mjt > > > Thanks - this is interesting. However, this is still somewhat > of a brute force method for piecing things together - I > thought there was some kind of elegant mechanism where you > could edit make.conf or something, so that when you did a make > world, it would skip the components that you didn't want to - > and you could control it with much more granularity than you > can in the custom menu in sysinstall ... does this sound > familiar at all ? > > > > That is, forget that I am doing solid state / flash at all - > what is the correct way to install FreeBSD without things like > ppp, isdn, and other pieces of the _base_ system that you > don't want ? > > > > thanks. Not that I am aware of... But if you start with /etc, /bin and /sbin you are probably on the right track see man hier(7) cheers mjt -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ****************************************************************
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