<div dir="ltr">I don't recall anyone working on an actual nanobsd-equivalent for DragonFly. I suspect some of the need for that sort of setup has gone down over the years due to the explosion of cheap disk space, but I'm saying that without looking at the use cases very well.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Zenny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garbytrash@gmail.com" target="_blank">garbytrash@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Very useful info. Thank you Justin and John.<br>
<br>
BTW, something minimal like NanoBSD scripts from FreeBSD tools would<br>
be very helpful, I guess. Is there something in the making similar to<br>
NanoBSD scripts in DragonFlyBSD? Didn't find anything online.<br>
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On 11/29/13, Justin Sherrill <<a href="mailto:justin@shiningsilence.com">justin@shiningsilence.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am saying this without checking to make sure it's correct, but: if you do<br>
> as John suggested and set up an install using DESTDIR, that resulting setup<br>
> could be packaged into an install iso/img. The installer 'just' copies<br>
> over the system on the install image.<br>
><br>
> Also, if you plan to install to multiple machines, there's PFI and rconfig.<br>
> These may be able to do some of the work for you in system pruning, too,<br>
> but they are poorly documented.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=rconfig§ion=ANY" target="_blank">http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=rconfig§ion=ANY</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-08/msg00183.html" target="_blank">http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-08/msg00183.html</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-08/msg00195.html" target="_blank">http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-08/msg00195.html</a><br>
><br>
> I'll point out that if you are removing material from the system to save<br>
> disk space, you will also want to pay attention to your Hammer settings; an<br>
> active disk will eat up a lot of space through file change history. If you<br>
> aren't short on space... really, there's no need to trim this stuff out.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Konrad Neuwirth<br>
> <<a href="mailto:konrad@mailathome.or.at">konrad@mailathome.or.at</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> I have a rather uncommon request. I'm thinking about making a fairly<br>
>> small<br>
>> dragonflybsd install image for our production servers. I'm sure that it<br>
>> doesn't need the compiler tool chain or a lot of other things; but does<br>
>> anyone here have a good idea of how to go about finding out what tools I<br>
>> need and what tools I don't need? Coming from NetBSD, there was that<br>
>> little<br>
>> base & etc set that could get the system going – but I don't really have<br>
>> a<br>
>> reasonably good idea how to go about this.<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you!<br>
>> Konrad<br>
>><br>
><br>
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