Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ?

[Murray Taylor]

Google for minibsd

http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html

I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143
quite successfully

mjt



On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:14, Joe Schmoe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to fit a FreeBSD 4.10 system (not pico or anything like that) onto a 16 megabyte IDE flash drive.  I am having reasonable success doing this ... I load FreeBSD with sysinstall onto a normal hard drive, then boot it up and start deleting a lot of things and stripping out things, and when I am done I tar it all up and then put it onto the flash drive with the FIXIT floppy.
> 
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> 
> So far so good.  The problem is, my methods for paring down the system are extremely brutish.  Basically I use the custom menu in sysinstall and only install a bare minimum of items, but even then I have a ton of garbage on the system that I never needed, and certainly never selected in sysinstall - but they are part of the base system so I get them anyway.  Files having to do with ISDN and PPP and all sorts of libraries, etc.
> 
> So I basically just walk around the system deleting everything that looks like it is unneeded - sometimes going so far as:
> 
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> 
> find / -name '*ppp*' -delete
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> Is there a better strategy ?  Is there some rational way I can get an even more minimal install than the minimal install I create from the custom menu in sysinstall ?  That is, instead of deciding that I don't need PPP, and then going around deleting everything to do with PPP, is there a way to just not have PPP installed in the first place ?
> 
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> 
> thanks.
> 
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