From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 17 17:31:03 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28F936A90A for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B7dSk4vLRz4K7l for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.159] (cpe-23-243-161-111.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.161.111]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id c513bdea (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:30:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: NanoBSD and PicoBSD questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <7ded2e5d-5141-4b8d-fed4-c6e3ceecc5ce@nomadlogic.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:30:55 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B7dSk4vLRz4K7l X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.07 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.47)[-0.472]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.20)[0.196]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.49)[-0.490]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[23.243.161.111:received] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:31:03 -0000 On 7/17/20 7:12 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Hi All, > > I am just now coming to FreeBSD over from the Linux world. > > In the past,I read a little bit about a 6BM BSD version made from FreeBSd > called MiniBSD which was only 6MB in size but unfortunately that was for an > i386 base and the project seems to be now dead. > > I am very interest possibly generating up some in ultra-thin FreeBSD > versions for the x86_64 (AMD) platform that can be along the same size or > smaller, of course without an xserver as I am looking into SDL & DirectFB > to run the GUI single application (no desktop needed) that I want. > > On that note, I have also read that FreeBSD has some "tools" that may be > able to generate versions of PicoBSD (around 2MB) and NanoBSD (??? MB) so I > have set up a FreeBSD system so that I can try to generate some ISO's if > possible. > > For this project, an initial FreeBSD, or dialect, being the smaller the > better with just the absolute bare essentials on it so that I can add > things as needed. > > What I am not sure about here is how to install the FreeBSD tools that seem > to have the shell scripts that will generate PicoBSD and NanoBSD. > > I would like to be able to download a pre-built ISO of these just to see > them run before jumping into the effort but cannot find them anywhere. This link is a good starting point for nanobsd: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html the scripts and configs for nanobsd are part of the source FreeBSD distribution, so if you checkout the code nanobsd will be available in $CHECKOUT/tools/tools/nanobsd/ This document provides a pretty good overview of the structure of the project itself (assuming you are interesting in building products based on FreeBSD): https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.html hope this helps get you pointed in the right direction. cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA