Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:44:56 -0700 From: "Helmut Hissen" <helmut@zeebar.com> To: <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Thinbsd] Re: ThinBSD with other videodriver Message-ID: <002201c45375$d1beadb0$4501a8c0@phred>
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yes, disklabel and fdisk can be painful. I found dd if=3D/dev/null = of=3Dour partition/disk useful at times. =20 I did a dependency graph for most of FreeBSD libs, binaries, and etc = files once for a personal project (SlimDevices server) and fit everyhing = including ssh2d, dhclient, and perl, tcl, and most file utilities = stuffed into a few MB kernel using homebrew scripts and crunch. Its really silly how much crap there is on the average system disk, even = in FreeBSD, tho it is much tighter than the others. Kudos to the folks = maintaining the ports and releases since that little project gave me a = whole new appreciations for their ability to deal with dependencies. btw: Perl is a real pain to shrink down and in the end made up the = single largest chunk. Once you pull in perl, you pull in a whole bunch = of more random stuff you will never use. I suggest you use Tcl instead = if you can. cheers hh
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