Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:50:13 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "Manuel Kasper" <mk@neon1.net> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, "'Howard Jones'" <howie@thingy.com> Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) Message-ID: <200207031950.g63JoD0L035976@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 2002 20:23:30 %2B0200." <000201c222be$bb946370$5b00a8c0@CNMKA> References: <000201c222be$bb946370$5b00a8c0@CNMKA>
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Also, don't forget that you can gzip the kernel if you're using /boot/loader during the boostrap process. This gains back a noticable amount of space "for free." I also build all the binaries to be dynamically linked; this is a big space savings as well. My original target was an 8MB compact flash disk, and this was the trick to getting it to fit. I was less worried about things getting corrupted as the system runs with the root filesystem mounted read-only. The current setup that I use is a 32MB compact flash card, with two slices. I alternate between them so I can always easily revert to the previous version if something bad happens when doing an upgrade. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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