miniBSD

miniBSD is a project to develop a set of scripts that shrinks a running FreeBSD system to a small sized miniBSD distribution suited for small media like USB pens and CF...

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minibsd is a project to develop a set of scripts that shrinks a running freebsd system to a small sized minibsd distribution suited for small media like usb pens and cf cards.

the size of the distribution is usually 1215m (it fits in a 16m flash) and contains everything you usually need to run a full freebsd system in a confortable way. we decided to start this project after reading about a similar idea on martin kasper's site (see credits below) and mainly because we need a freebsd system that could be fitted in a small compact flash without loosing too much of a full freebsd system ease of use. so it is half way between a picobsd system (floppy size) and nanobsd or penbsd.

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