Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:32:17 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? Message-ID: <20040615073217.GA20038@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1087259406.34774.16.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <20040615040428.27513.qmail@web53301.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > > Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> wrote: > Google for minibsd > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > > 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 ? You have to edit /etc/make.conf and add NO_xxx lines in it (look in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf). In addition, I use custom CFLAGS when possible. Sometimes -Os produces broken code (X11 comes to mind). My /etc/make.conf looks like this: CFLAGS=-Os -march=c3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe NO_ACPI=yes NO_CVS=true [more NO_xxx lines] I then install the new world in a separate directory: make world DESTDIR=/itx But even though this procedure gives a minimal system, it is too big for my requirements (FreeBSD + X11 + rdesktop in 16MB). I am still forced to pick and choose components by hand. -- Francois Tigeot
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