RE: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-30 Thread Murray Taylor 
Try these methods of 'minimising' FreeBSD

FWIW - I run 4.11 in 20M of a 32M Compact Flash card
with the build described here

https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html

The box acts as a network health monitor with SNMP and fping
utilities running, has a DHCP server running, a GSM modem daemon
and has about 100+ of the 'common' base install utilities an board.
Like tcpdump, vi, grep, comm, awk, the shells csh and sh 
I have partitioned the CF card to have a 2M configuration partition
that is made writeable by rc.shutdown to save a list of my
.conf files and .sh files.

And I believe that you can run PERL in the 32M space if you want to 
add it to the build list...


If you need 5.x or 6.x try these

http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=86   for 5.x
http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=125  for 6.x
 

HTH

 -Original Message-
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris T.
 Sent: Saturday, 29 July 2006 4:07 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?
 
 Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I 
 can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver 
 so I can turn it off.  I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom 
 ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by 
 swapping cards.  I don't see myself using 4GB flash cards for 
 this.  I'd rather get smaller cheaper cards.  How big is a 
 minimal freebsd install?
 
 Chris
 
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Re: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Erik Nørgaard 
Chris T. wrote:
 Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move
 the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it
 off.  I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can
 swap setups on the thing by swapping cards.  I don't see myself using
 4GB flash cards for this.  I'd rather get smaller cheaper cards.  How
 big is a minimal freebsd install?

If you

# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make DESTDIR=/some/empty/dir installworld
# make DESTDIR=/some/empty/dir distribution
# make DESTDIR=/some/empty/dir installkernel

Then you'll see that

# du -d 1 /some/empty/dir

adds up to less than 200MB. This can be reduced further if you in your
make.conf remove NIS, LPR, GAMES and other stuff you won't need.

1GB should be enough for everything, but remember that log files may eat
up a lot of space.

And btw, doing the above you have a fully functional base system
installed into /some/empty/dir

Cheers, Erik
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Re: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Matti J. Karki 

On 7/28/06, Chris T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move
the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it
off.  I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can
swap setups on the thing by swapping cards.  I don't see myself using
4GB flash cards for this.  I'd rather get smaller cheaper cards.  How
big is a minimal freebsd install?

Chris



I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 at my Soekris board and I have 512MB
CompactFlash card in use. About 50% of the card is used by the
operating system, http server, python interpreter etc. and the other
half is free for e-mail and log files. The installation is just the
vanilla FreeBSD installation without any X11 packages. Only
modification I made, was to syslogd, where I disabled the cron job
reporting.


   -Matti
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