What's our standard "stripped-down FreeBSD" tool?

Jean Milanez Melo jmelo at freebsdbrasil.com.br
Thu Jul 26 18:38:27 UTC 2007


M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20070725105930.GC1524 at zaphod.nitro.dk>
>             "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> writes:
> : On 2007.07.25 11:31:42 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> : 
> : > "How long is a piece of string" ;-) ie likely depends what size
> : > flash drive is !  My impression (non user) is Freesbie aims CD size,
> : > whereas Nano or Tiny aim [a lot] smaller ?
> : > 
> : > man nanobsd:
> : > 	 doesnt quote a typical size but does have SEE ALSO picobsd
> : > man picobsd:
> : > 	"which typically fits on a small media such as a floppy disk"
> : > 	"The biggest problem is determining what will fit on the floppies"
> : > 
> : > Suggestion: run them, generate images & use send-pr to report approx
> : > default sizes to be included in manuals so we know for future.
> : 
> : Default sizes for nanobsd in default config is 2 x normal FreeBSD size
> : + ~5MB, but of course you need to set the size of your flash.  You can
> : get it on to a 128MB flash with a config file which excludes stuff
> : like toolchain etc. without much trouble.  The interesting size really
> : is with a config file like this.
> : 
> : 64MB requires more work, but is possible.
> 
> I think I once generated a TinyBSD image on the order or 20M.
> However, I lost the config files to do that in a disk crash...
> 

With the TinyBSD minimal config, you can build an image with about 12M.

- Jean


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