Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:26:22 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: justin.wojdacki@analog.com Cc: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal Message-ID: <3DD2994E.65F078E7@softweyr.com> References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> <p05200f03b9f706009d91@[192.168.254.205]> <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com>
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Justin Wojdacki wrote: > > Rich Morin wrote: > > > > My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a > > single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had > > functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the > > overhead a great deal. > > If you're seriously interested in this, take a look at busybox. > > http://busybox.lineo.org > > Not sure how compatible the licensing is for FreeBSD base software > though. BusyBox is essentialy what crunchgen does, though with crunchgen you get the full-featured FreeBSD versions of commands, not the stripped-down sometimes functionless versions in BusyBox. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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