Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ?

[Bruce R. Montague]

Hi, re:

 > I would like to fit a FreeBSD 4.10 system (not pico or
 > anything like that) onto a 16 megabyte IDE flash drive.

 and

 > I thought there was some kind of elegant mechanism
 > where you could edit make.conf or something, ...

You may be thinking of nanobsd in the -CURRENT tools:  

  /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd

(no doc but the source (makefile really) is pretty simple.)


 See also:

 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2782+0+archive/2004/freebsd-small/20040314.freebsd-small

 And perhaps also the discussion on:

 http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2004/freebsd-small/20040314.freebsd-small.html




   - bruce