Hi,
I am trying to run FreeBSD (7 or 9, I don't care) on a very small device in terms of hardware capacity.
It is a 128 MB system with 1 GB of HDD.
I tried a standard installation to get a feeling for it, FreeBSD 9.0 AMD64 takes 600 MB HDD without the portstree and uses around 12MB RAM in idle.
Can you tell me from your experience what I could do to not exceed the limits? I was thinking to use FreeBSD 7.4 which seems to be less demanding. Also I remember I read once about a tool which can be used to install ports without downloading the complete portstree.
You can give me some hints what I could do? Compiling the kernel etc. is not the way I want to go. It should be as close to standard as possible, but maybe you have some sysctl-flags etc which can help?
Thanks in advance!
I am trying to run FreeBSD (7 or 9, I don't care) on a very small device in terms of hardware capacity.
It is a 128 MB system with 1 GB of HDD.
I tried a standard installation to get a feeling for it, FreeBSD 9.0 AMD64 takes 600 MB HDD without the portstree and uses around 12MB RAM in idle.
Can you tell me from your experience what I could do to not exceed the limits? I was thinking to use FreeBSD 7.4 which seems to be less demanding. Also I remember I read once about a tool which can be used to install ports without downloading the complete portstree.
You can give me some hints what I could do? Compiling the kernel etc. is not the way I want to go. It should be as close to standard as possible, but maybe you have some sysctl-flags etc which can help?
Thanks in advance!