On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
2009/7/27 Mikel King <mikel.k...@olivent.com>:
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
Chris,
Thank you for your detailed answer. Most appreciated as is the URL to
nanobsd so that I can RTFM...
Cheers,
m!
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