2009/7/27 Mikel King <[email protected]>: > 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 Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 421M 203M 185M 52% / [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc /boot/xboxkern.0/ 112M /boot/xboxkern.0/ 112M total [ch...@amnesiac]/usr% du -hc bin include lib sbin share games libdata <snip> 292M share/doc <snip> 428M total [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? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
