Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-29 Thread Abdullah Sendul
great thanks, now my distribution is 4MB :) \sendul On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:02 AM, James Records james.reco...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot It builds a minimal ramdisk based bsd.gz of around ~6MB You can customize the install script and get whatever

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-26 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 26 00:10:20, Abdullah Sendul wrote: Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is static. I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run, and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of the distribution You can easily move

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-26 Thread Aaron Mason
Agreed on the whole - I run a router happily on a 512mb flash drive. And I didn't have to minimise a thing. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Oct 26 00:10:20, Abdullah Sendul wrote: Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: Jan Stary h...@stare.cz On Oct 26 00:10:20, Abdullah Sendul wrote: Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is static. I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run, and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of the

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-26 Thread David Walker
Agreed on the whole - I run a router happily on a 512mb flash drive. And I didn't have to minimise a thing. +1 I install 4.5 over the network to my router. GENERIC bsd, base45, etc45. No scripting required. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#FilesNeeded It fits on a 256MB compact flash with

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-26 Thread David Walker
Unless 4.6 has grown more than it looks I expect it will also fit nicely. # uname -rs OpenBSD 4.6 # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 240M160M 68.5M70%/ mfs:28054 7.7M1.0K7.3M 0%/tmp Bags of room. Best wishes.

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-26 Thread James Records
Take a look at www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot It builds a minimal ramdisk based bsd.gz of around ~6MB You can customize the install script and get whatever binaries you need in there, just read the README file. It will take some tinkering but you should be able to get what you want with

decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-25 Thread Abdullah Sendul
Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is static. I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run, and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of the distribution find -mtime -atime is giving me some ideas, but is this the right

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-25 Thread Robert
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:10:20 +0100 Abdullah Sendul coffeesm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is static. I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run, and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-25 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:10:20AM +0100, Abdullah Sendul wrote: Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is static. I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run, and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of the distribution

Re: decreasing the size of the distribution

2009-10-25 Thread STeve Andre'
On Sunday 25 October 2009 19:10:20 Abdullah Sendul wrote: Hi, we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is static. I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run, and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of the distribution find