Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801

From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie_at_le-hen.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:26:08 +0200
Hi Matthew,

> I have to wonder if exclusion is a better route than inclusion.
> 
> I've got several Soekris boxes (4501) out in production, running I
> think a 4.7ish FreeBSD.  But I built up the images by including things
> in.  I did a full normal buildworld, and a DESTDIR'd installworld.  I
> didn't use any special options to trim out pieces of programs; just a
> few simple tweaks like -Os compiling Then I used a list of the
> programs, and used some ldd'ing and sed'ing in the Makefile to get all
> the libraries needed and copy everything over to another staging dir.
> 
> Of course, manual tweaking for config files was needed.  I handwrote
> the whole rc bootup process (independant scripts for ease of manual
> fiddling, but with a hardcoded sequence for the bootup process).
> Hand-trimmed passwd/group files.  I had to pull some libraries
> manually (PAM was the major "offender" here).  And so on; not stuff
> that would really fit in the NanoBSD schema.
> 
> I built them rather more general than the project required, so I
> wouldn't have to carefully craft each future use; they had everything
> necessary to do most networking jobs you'd stick a 4501 in for.  It
> still came in around around the 20 meg line.

Is your work publishable ?  In this case, I would be glad to have a
look at it.

Thank you.
Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
Received on Tue Jun 21 2005 - 11:25:55 UTC

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