Unless you plan to rebuild the entire system from source, it's easier to
exclude things during the install than to remove them later. Have a look
at the manpage for sysinstall(8), particularly the description of
distSetCustom under SCRIPT SYNTAX.
Here's the config for a dedicated server with a
Steve Coile wrote:
I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, having come into a position administering
it only a few months ago. My experience is primarily with Red Hat Linux
and Solaris. Please bear with me.
On several other Unix variants which which I have experience, I could
safely remove components of
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Bill Moran wrote:
[...]
Depends on the component and how the previous admin handled things. Most
FreeBSD users use the ports/package system to add/remove programs. The
docs are very good:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
However,
Steve Coile wrote:
[ ... ]
I guess that's my point. FreeBSD is pretty big, even without the ports.
My administration philosophy is minimal function set: only install what
will be used. I'd like a clean way to remove a component--for instance
development tools, or X, or printing support--from the
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Bill Moran wrote:
[...]
Depends on the component and how the previous admin handled things. Most
FreeBSD users use the ports/package system to add/remove programs. The
docs are very good:
