Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires very, very little) A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. http://www.minibsd.org It needs some practice to get it right, but the results are quite useful when you get it right! Dan I'm running a couple of mini-ITX sized mini-bsd machines now. They're dedicated to SSL proxy duties. They boot and run fom 32MB compact flash cards. / is mounted read only, /var & /tmp are ramdisks. Runs great on VMware too. ...jgm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
> A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you > might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to > pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. Thank you, I will definitely check that out. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? > > (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires > very, very little) A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. http://www.minibsd.org It needs some practice to get it right, but the results are quite useful when you get it right! Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpmEA3YOb9Gg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? The boot-only CD will be fine for any sort of installation, as long as you have a good Internet connection. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install
On 2007-10-02 Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? > > (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires > very, very little) AFAIK, you will need at least the first ISO. That's what I exactly did with my home machine: did a minimal 6.2 installation, 'portsnap fetch', 'portsnap extract' and then ports installation. HTH Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
doing a minimal FreeBSD install
I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires very, very little) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
