Re: How to doc available?
On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/7/27 Mikel King : Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing below 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever the smallest I can get away with. Thanks, in advance. Cheers. m I'm going to try to answer your question rather than tell you you're wrong. It's possible, and not difficult. Option 1) I'm pretty sure a default install of FreeBSD covers a little less than 640 MB; have you just tried that? [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% df -h / Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a421M203M185M52%/ [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc /boot/xboxkern.0/ 112M/boot/xboxkern.0/ 112Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc bin include lib sbin share games libdata 292Mshare/doc 428Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% So, excluding /usr/share/doc, and /boot/xboxkern.0 (a leftover from when amnesiac was an xbox), my install with no ports etc is ~203-112=91MB for /, 428-292=136MB for /usr, plus /var and /tmp (both minimal if properly managed and trimmed) makes <~250 MB; way less than the 500 MB specified. You could probably even install Apache on that! If I've missed anything glaringly obvious, please correct me someone Option 2) Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/ index.html Chris Chris, Thank you for your detailed answer. Most appreciated as is the URL to nanobsd so that I can RTFM... Cheers, m! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to doc available?
2009/7/27 Mikel King : > Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited > space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd > and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing below > 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever the smallest > I can get away with. > > Thanks, in advance. > > Cheers. > m > I'm going to try to answer your question rather than tell you you're wrong. It's possible, and not difficult. Option 1) I'm pretty sure a default install of FreeBSD covers a little less than 640 MB; have you just tried that? [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% df -h / Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a421M203M185M52%/ [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc /boot/xboxkern.0/ 112M/boot/xboxkern.0/ 112Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc bin include lib sbin share games libdata 292Mshare/doc 428Mtotal [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% So, excluding /usr/share/doc, and /boot/xboxkern.0 (a leftover from when amnesiac was an xbox), my install with no ports etc is ~203-112=91MB for /, 428-292=136MB for /usr, plus /var and /tmp (both minimal if properly managed and trimmed) makes <~250 MB; way less than the 500 MB specified. You could probably even install Apache on that! If I've missed anything glaringly obvious, please correct me someone Option 2) Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to doc available?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:19:17PM -0400, Mikel King wrote: > Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in > limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system > with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep > the thing below 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for > whatever the smallest I can get away with. Have you tried it yet? Once Upon A Time Not So Long Ago, 512MB was a *huge* system disk. And as others have pointed out much larger USB stick is cheap. So how many hours are you willing to spend to save $12? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to doc available?
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: excuse-me, but what is the problem with size??? I have a PQI stick that is 29mm X 11mm X 2.5mm and have 4gbytes... and works very good... sells for US$12 here... take a look: http://www.pqigroup.com/product2.asp?oid=19&cate1=19&proid=333 you have inside 4Bg of storage.. usb2.0 The problem is that my client has mandated that it be below 640MB so I can not, as much as I would prefer, use a 4GB stick. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to doc available?
excuse-me, but what is the problem with size??? I have a PQI stick that is 29mm X 11mm X 2.5mm and have 4gbytes... and works very good... sells for US$12 here... take a look: http://www.pqigroup.com/product2.asp?oid=19&cate1=19&proid=333 you have inside 4Bg of storage.. usb2.0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
How to doc available?
Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in limited space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with lighttpd and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing below 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever the smallest I can get away with. Thanks, in advance. Cheers. m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
