From: "Jan Stary" <h...@stare.cz>
On Oct 26 00:10:20, Abdullah Sendul wrote:
Hi,
we are having a couple of openbsd servers, of which, the content is
static.
I would like to identify all the files needed for this system to run,
and then move it to a flash disk to minimise the size of the
distribution
You can easily move it to a flash disk without "minimizing" anything.
I would tend to agree. OpenBSD is a small operating system and any
reasonably sized flash storage will easily contain it. Why on earth make
life more difficult for yourself - as soon as you cut the OS down it becomes
harder to support!
I have a NetBSD system using an IDE->Compact Flash converter and simply use
it as normal (at the time, OpenBSD didn't support the hardware fully).
I do use flashdist on an OpenBSD firewall, with an extremely cut down subset
of OpenBSD. The reason for this is not distribution size, but that the OS
remains unchanged every time it boots up (flashdist uses the storage device
read only) and the possibility of corruption is removed.
Flashdist works well, but from experience I can say it's a bit of a pain in
the arse to get working as it's always missing something. The first time I
booted it up, I found it didn't include the firmware for my (wired) ethernet
card by default, for instance.
Save yourself the hassle and just install as normal.
PK
