How to doc available?

[Mikel King]

On Jul 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Chris Rees wrote:

> 2009/7/27 Mikel King <mikel.king at olivent.com>:
>> Anyone know of a good tutorial for making a system on a USB key in  
>> limited
>> space? I have a project that requires enough of running system with  
>> lighttpd
>> and php5 to do some network magick. I would like to keep the thing  
>> below
>> 512MB but if that is not feasible then I'll shoot for whatever the  
>> smallest
>> I can get away with.
>>
>> Thanks, in advance.
>>
>> Cheers.
>> m
>>
>
> I'm going to try to answer your question rather than tell you you're
> wrong. It's possible, and not difficult.
>
> Option 1) I'm pretty sure a default install of FreeBSD covers a little
> less than 640 MB; have you just tried that?
>
> [chris at amnesiac]/usr% df -h /
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    421M    203M    185M    52%    /
> [chris at amnesiac]/usr% du -hc /boot/xboxkern.0/
> 112M    /boot/xboxkern.0/
> 112M    total
> [chris at amnesiac]/usr% du -hc bin include lib sbin share games libdata
>
> <snip>
>
> 292M    share/doc
>
> <snip>
>
> 428M    total
> [chris at amnesiac]/usr%
>
> So, excluding /usr/share/doc, and /boot/xboxkern.0 (a leftover from
> when amnesiac was an xbox), my install with no ports etc is
> ~203-112=91MB for /, 428-292=136MB for /usr, plus /var and /tmp (both
> minimal if properly managed and trimmed) makes <~250 MB; way less than
> the 500 MB specified. You could probably even install Apache on that!
>
> If I've missed anything glaringly obvious, please correct me  
> someone....
>
> Option 2) Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/ 
> index.html
>
> Chris
>


Chris,

Thank you for your detailed answer. Most appreciated as is the URL to  
nanobsd so that I can RTFM...

Cheers,
m!