Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 21:10:22 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> Cc: Manuel Kasper <mk@neon1.net>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) Message-ID: <3D22792E.C88EBD20@pantherdragon.org> References: <000201c22194$171e66e0$8c7da8c0@CNMKA> <20020702211153.B1160@grosbein.pp.ru>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:45:39AM +0200, Manuel Kasper wrote: > > > I've just finished my guide on how to strip FreeBSD of "unnecessary" > > things without going as minimalistic as e.g. PicoBSD. I wanted something > > in between a FreeBSD "minimal" install (which still takes up about 80 > > MB) and PicoBSD. If you're interested, it's available on > > > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > > Great work! > > Btw, you can save some space of /bin and /sbin - commands residing here > are built static by defaut. That's unnesessary and you can get > shared binaries using echo 'NOSHARED=yes' >>/etc/make.conf and rebuilding. As long as you realize that if a /bin or /sbin program can't run due to missing/corrupt libraries that you may or may not be able to even boot single-user. At the very least, /bin/sh, /sbin/mount, /sbin/init, and /sbin/fsck should be static builds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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