Re: a brief story about your alternatives

>From: Steve Pearlmutter <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: a brief story about your alternatives
>Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:14:42 -0700
>
>Shane J Pearson <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 01:55  AM, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> >
> >> Or we can work together on it.
> >
> > Sounds great.
> >
> > Is it possible to write a script that can install and cut down from
> > the original OpenBSD ftp, or tree mounted on a local server?
>
>I was kind of hoping that that's what emBSD would provide, once Ken &
>Truman got the CVS up & running.  It should be much easier to keep
>some scripts up to date than to keep an entire new release of OpenBSD
>up to date.  Unfortunately (for most of us, I'd guess), the whole
>emBSD project is pretty opaque.
>
>After trying the emBSD 2.1 alpha release, and finding that it was not
>workable for me, I went through the process of cutting down the
>release manually last week, and it wasn't too bad.  I have not
>automated it, and of course it requires building a distribution on top
>of an updated OpenBSD 3.1 installation, but it is installed on CF and
>works in my net4501.  My target was a 64MB card, so it was a little
>easier, but it could squeeze down to 32MB, I think.
>
>With several of us doing this sort of thing, it's unfortunate we don't
>have a place to combine our changes.  I know that Chuck has some
>library changes etc. that would be most likely be useful to
>everybody.
>
>Steve.


I would like to know about a few questions about the stripped down version 
of OpenBSD 3.1.

1.  What is the point to strip down the size from 128M -> 64M -> 32M.  I had 
tried to installed the minimium version of OpenBSD of 3.1 (only base31.tgz 
and etc31.tgz) into a 128M CF with some tailor setup.

2.  Besides the Net4501, I would like to know if other hardware is suitable 
for doing the same function.  If yes, we are no need to fix our choice to 
Net4501.

3.  How can we have a kernel sutiable for our configuration if we use 
different hardware configuration ?  I think it should tailor for ourselves.  
Right ?

I appreciate that we can gather the resources together to build up the 
embedded system (firewall...) for our need.

Clarence

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