What's our standard "stripped-down FreeBSD" tool?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jul 26 17:37:56 UTC 2007


In message: <20070725105930.GC1524 at zaphod.nitro.dk>
            "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> writes:
: On 2007.07.25 11:31:42 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
: 
: > "How long is a piece of string" ;-) ie likely depends what size
: > flash drive is !  My impression (non user) is Freesbie aims CD size,
: > whereas Nano or Tiny aim [a lot] smaller ?
: > 
: > man nanobsd:
: > 	 doesnt quote a typical size but does have SEE ALSO picobsd
: > man picobsd:
: > 	"which typically fits on a small media such as a floppy disk"
: > 	"The biggest problem is determining what will fit on the floppies"
: > 
: > Suggestion: run them, generate images & use send-pr to report approx
: > default sizes to be included in manuals so we know for future.
: 
: Default sizes for nanobsd in default config is 2 x normal FreeBSD size
: + ~5MB, but of course you need to set the size of your flash.  You can
: get it on to a 128MB flash with a config file which excludes stuff
: like toolchain etc. without much trouble.  The interesting size really
: is with a config file like this.
: 
: 64MB requires more work, but is possible.

I think I once generated a TinyBSD image on the order or 20M.
However, I lost the config files to do that in a disk crash...

Warner


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