On 16:30:50 Mar 27, Ross Cameron wrote: > Basically I want to strip the system down as much as possible, > practically nothing would be good. > My GNU/Linux appliances ran on a 4MB system image. >
Please don't insult OpenBSD by comparing with linux. ;) Have you ever seen the source code of OpenBSD kernel? Have you considered how the kernel build system is organized? Have you seen the linux kernel source? What do you mean by "practically nothing would be good"? And oh by the way OpenBSD is not a kernel, it is an operating system and many people still dunno the difference between the two. You have the choice of putting "practically nothing" by choosing only those distributions you want in the install stage. Another thing you could do is take a look at crunchgen(1). # cd /usr/src/distrib/crunch # make # make install man crunchgen It is only because linux kernel is so "modular" (laugh) that people want to build their own kernel. And to tell you honestly I still dunno how to compile and install a linux kernel. And it varies between distros to make things worse. And it is easier to compile an OpenBSD kernel than to compile a linux userland app. Please don't retrofit OpenBSD to fit into the linux mould. It is unfortunate that such garbage like linux is so popular. I guess people do not read the kernel source. But the world always had more fools than smart people... -Girish
