[time-nuts] Soekris NTP server

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4595276F.5080900 at febo.com>, John Ackermann N8UR writes:
>Brendan Minish said the following on 12/29/2006 09:11 AM:
>
>> I have an install of freeBSD6.1 running in vmware to use as a build
>> staging platform and I think I can manage the custom kernel build
>> (although a peek at someone else's config would be useful.) etc 
>> i have also manged to get nanoBSD to build for me but the resultant
>> build file is huge. how do I go about pruning the nanoBSD to only what
>> is needed? 
>
>Hi Brendan --
>
>PHK is the definitive source of answers about nanoBSD, but I think the
>image size is actually tuned to the size of the CF card that's
>specified, so if you spec'd a 512MB card, you'll an image that size
>(actually, two identical images that add up to that size).  Most of the
>image is empty space.  I think the actual code size is less than 64MB.

The code size depends how much of FreeBSD you disable in the nanobsd
build.

If you don't disable anything, I think each code image needs about
180-200 MB so a 512MB card is perfect for getting airborne quickly.

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