How to tailor installation set?

[Rob]

Unless you plan to rebuild the entire system from source, it's easier to
exclude things during the install than to remove them later. Have a look
at the manpage for sysinstall(8), particularly the description of
distSetCustom under SCRIPT SYNTAX.

Here's the config for a dedicated server with a minimal installation
(and a small disk):

  # disk format
  disk=ad0
  partition=exclusive
  diskPartitionEditor

  # disk slices
  ad0s1-1=ufs    262144  /      1  # 128M + soft updates
  ad0s1-2=swap   262144  none      # 128M
  ad0s1-3=ufs    262144  /var   1  # 128M + soft updates
  ad0s1-4=ufs    262144  /usr   1  # 128M + soft updates
  ad0s1-5=ufs    0       /home  1  # free + soft updates
  diskLabelEditor

  # install system
  distSetMinimum
  mediaSetCDROM
  installCommit

It's not as sophisticated as Solaris Jumpstart, but it certainly allows
you to customise the installation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Coile" <scoile at nandomedia.com>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:13 PM


> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Bill Moran wrote:
> [...]
> > Depends on the component and how the previous admin handled things.
Most
> > FreeBSD users use the ports/package system to add/remove programs.
The
> > docs are very good:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
> >
> > However, some parts of FreeBSD are part of "distribution sets" (such
as
> > man pages, source and ports tree)  I don't know of any automated way
to
> > remove these from the system.
>
> I guess that's my point.  FreeBSD is pretty big, even without the
ports.
> My administration philosophy is "minimal function set": only install
what
> will be used.  I'd like a clean way to remove a component--for
instance
> development tools, or X, or printing support--from the system without
> breaking any dependencies.
>
> --
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