Been meaning to do this for some time, finally broke down and started a blog.
The first entry is dedicated to creating small footprint RAM resident Solaris
configs.
Check out http://blogs.sun.com/jtc/
Regards,
-- Jim C
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Wasn't it possible to do it in a cleaner way, i.e. start from
SUNWCrnet and use pkgrm, so that the system integrity remains
consistent? I have to try that exercise one of these days...
Yep, I actually remove some packages too. But to get to ~64MB I think
you will need to be a
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >>I'm more interested in paring things down to a
> minimal kernel that can
> >>be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >My minimized install miniroot is a 64MB; so it
> should be possible to make
> >that work (it's a full kernel runnin
> > That may well be possible with some more extreme
> > measures. What I started
> > with is the reduced network core install which is
> > ~200MB. This doesn't
> > include ssh, but does include a bunch of things
> that
> > may not be of interest.
> >
> > You may find you will have to use rm judic
> That may well be possible with some more extreme
> measures. What I started
> with is the reduced network core install which is
> ~200MB. This doesn't
> include ssh, but does include a bunch of things that
> may not be of interest.
>
> You may find you will have to use rm judiciously.
> Also if
> For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images that we load from
> disk. The images
> are ~700MB, but it is possible to make usable Solaris
> images < 400 MB.
True. I have a 348MB (if I recall correctly) Flash(TM) image of Solaris 10 6/06
that supports IPFilter, NFS, NIS, DNS, SSH, all the drivers + vari
> That community appears to have gone to sleep for a
> while and it hasn't
> considered small FLASH based boards.
>
> I was looking for an alternative to CE on this class
> of system.
If you want to start there a good start would be getting OpenSolaris to run on
the Soekris appliance. It's an AM
