nanoBSD + xorg (vesa)?

[Warner Losh]

On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Zeus Panchenko <zeus at ibs.dn.ua> wrote:
>> hi all,
>> I'd like to get nanoBSD with minimal xorg installation (to be able to
>> run image/pdf viewer and browser) which I can flash to USB stick to have
>> the only OS at hand
>> 
>> what I need for that?
>> 
> 
> You can try with my work-in-progress "BSD media center" based on
> nanobsd/xorg/XBMC.
> Instruction for building the image here:
> https://code.google.com/p/bsdmc/wiki/HowToCompile
> 
> You need to edit the BSDMC.nano file and start by removing the lines:
> add_port "comms/lirc"
> add_port "multimedia/ffmpeg"
> add_port "graphics/cairo"
> add_port "multimedia/xbmc"
> 
> Once done you can add your own ports.
> Then don't forget to remove some XBMC tricks in BSDMC_custom ()
> The nanobsd image mount the / in read-only mode, depending of the
> software used, this limitation need some tricks.

FreeNAS also does this for its build.  We got our code from Olivier :)

Warner