Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:03:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very inexpensive installation of FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331030247.397X-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970328115146.4675B-100000@economic.acnit.ac.ru>
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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Vasily V. Grechishnikov wrote: > We need an inexpensive router ( TCP/IP , 3-10 modems , 1-2 Ethers). > And haven't very many money . We assembled 386SX w/ 4MB RAM , 40MB HDD , > multiport card ... , without keyboard and video card. After I try to install > very nice OS - FreeBSD to that configuration on other computer . Wow, it fits? :) > I partioned 40MB HDD by a following ( 32 MB - root , 8 MB - swap ). > And I trying to install FreeBSD 2.2-BETA on this root device ... > I simply copying directory hierachy to 32MB / . I'm very tried by this > process , ( 2 hours ), but I'm create working system with 7MB > free of 32MB . Yow! > First way to install FreeBSD on super-mini disk slices is > addition to Installation menu on boot disks following > (Distributions/SuperMini) - only nessesary binaries such as sh, named, > route , ..., i.e . for an embedded systems and networking . > Or second way ( best ) add to the Distributions following item : > SuperCustom for very detailed choice of needed componets . Even in Linux > I can select to install only packages which I wish . FreeBSD's sysinstall > menu Distributions/Custom has only one choice bin[X] - 33MB . Why ? > Where flexibility ? Well, you pretty much need bin, which is all the binaries and a GENERIC kernel (which you'll need to rebuild anyway). You could extract it on a different machine, prune as necessary, then copy across. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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