Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: > One key idea that may help you is not mine -- it's due to Matt Thomas. It is > the idea of, making an *additional* bunch of sets files specifying > exactly and only the parts of the system you need. Then install those > (embedbase.txt, embedetc.tgz, etc.) rather than base, etc, and so forth. > That will give you a simple, maintainable way to build a NetBSD that > does what you need, is still a coherent whole rather than a pile of > disjoint "system packages", and is much smaller.
One interesting feature is also to crunchgen(1) binaries to reduce memory footprint, which is interesting when booting a kernel with ramdisk. It works nicely, but is not documented very much. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org
