nanobsd and -current

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Julian,

Thursday, September 14, 2006, 10:59:51 PM, you wrote:

> I'm looking at trying to make a -current nanobsd image I can put on a 
> USB dongle.

> Looking at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/howto.html

> Using the config file example in the web site fails with

> /usr/obj/nanobsd.julian//_.w/usr/lib/libl.a -> 
> /usr/obj/nanobsd.julian//_.w/usr/lib/libln.a
> ln: /usr/obj/nanobsd.julian//_.w/usr/lib/libln.a: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1

Not sure about this, try to ask phk@ maybe.

> has anyone used it recently?

> also, the docs are not very helpful in how to cut down the size of the image

> the example uses a lot of lines such as:
> NO_MODULES=YES

> is there a place where all these can be found?

make.conf(5) manual page I would say.

> I've looked in make.conf and /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 but there doesn't 
> seem to be an
> exhaustive list anywhere.

> I want to slim it down to fit on a 64 MB usb key but it's not immediatly
> how to do this from the 'docs'
> I'm resorting to reading the scripts and then the Makefiles but if 
> anyone has this alreay all written down somewhere
> that would be good.

I think that triming it down to 64mb will be a bit of "fun", since I
think you will have to create some custom functions to remove all the
unneeded binaries from the image.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org