[freebsd-questions] How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

[Howard Jones]

Chris T. wrote:
> I"m toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move 
> the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it 
> off.  I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can 
> swap setups on the thing by swapping cards.  I don't see myself using 
> 4GB flash cards for this.  I'd rather get smaller cheaper cards.  How 
> big is a minimal freebsd install?
It's not very minimal, but I have a quite usable install in a 256MB CF 
card. I have had 16MB DoMs that boot to X11 before now, but that's a lot 
more work to strip down (or rather build up from kernel+init, in that 
case). A chopped up make.conf and using buildworld into a different 
directory is all you need to get down to about 160MB, and you still have 
manpages and most signs of civilisation at that stage. It's nice to 
learn a bit more about the build process, too.

Howie