On 6/25/06, Josh Tolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/24/06, Rogier Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to install to a 128M CF, I suppose you're limiting
> yourself to base39.tgz, etc39.tgz and a few bytes or spare space. I
> wonder whether flashdist (as is rather popular on Soekris devices)
> would be an easier tool for you.
>
> Citing Google for "flashdist OpenBSD: http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/
My limited experience has taught me that by default, flashdist not
only removes things you probably won't run on the firewall/NAT boxes
for which it is intended (such as httpd, presumably), but also removes
some stuff that would be very nice for general system administration.
If memory serves, this includes things like passwd(1) and cron(8). In
other words, pay some attention to what flashdist includes and
excludes should you choose to use it. All that said, it was quite
simple to use, and certainly fast. The fact that the boxes I was
setting up when I used flashdist would have benefited more from
careful and considered installation than from fast installation was a
lesson I learned later, and not a shortcoming of flashdist ;)
-Josh
I second that. I re-burned about 10 times as I ran into the most
simple of utilities that I needed. I've reworked flashdist.sh quite a
bit since and use an exclusive re list, such as '/usr/lib/*.a',
instead of an inclusive list. Also simplified it to use an overlay/
directory to copy over the target media when finished with base sets,
instead of the complications of propriatary etc/files hard-coded in
script
I think what I'm getting at is its easier to *identify what you do Not
need*, than to try to remember everything that you do need. exclusive
not inclusive.
I have a feeling the first poster does not understand 90% of the
software in base. Just do a ls -sR | sort -nr or whatever and start
from the bottom, reading manual pages.
