Very useful info. Thank you Justin and John. BTW, something minimal like NanoBSD scripts from FreeBSD tools would be very helpful, I guess. Is there something in the making similar to NanoBSD scripts in DragonFlyBSD? Didn't find anything online.
On 11/29/13, Justin Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote: > I am saying this without checking to make sure it's correct, but: if you do > as John suggested and set up an install using DESTDIR, that resulting setup > could be packaged into an install iso/img. The installer 'just' copies > over the system on the install image. > > Also, if you plan to install to multiple machines, there's PFI and rconfig. > These may be able to do some of the work for you in system pruning, too, > but they are poorly documented. > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=rconfig§ion=ANY > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-08/msg00183.html > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-08/msg00195.html > > I'll point out that if you are removing material from the system to save > disk space, you will also want to pay attention to your Hammer settings; an > active disk will eat up a lot of space through file change history. If you > aren't short on space... really, there's no need to trim this stuff out. > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Konrad Neuwirth > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a rather uncommon request. I'm thinking about making a fairly >> small >> dragonflybsd install image for our production servers. I'm sure that it >> doesn't need the compiler tool chain or a lot of other things; but does >> anyone here have a good idea of how to go about finding out what tools I >> need and what tools I don't need? Coming from NetBSD, there was that >> little >> base & etc set that could get the system going – but I don't really have >> a >> reasonably good idea how to go about this. >> >> Thank you! >> Konrad >> >
