Re: tiny versions of openbsd?

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

Here are 2 good URLs with information about OpenBSD installations
which have been shrunk down to work on Soekris devices though the
information is mostly generic to shrinking down OpenBSD in general.

BTW, you should be able to fit a stripped down install into 32MB
with room to spare.

http://opensoekris.sourceforge.net
http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/

// Brad

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:48:10PM -0500, taproot420 wrote:
> Afternoon Gentlemen / Ladies,
> 
> I am looking for information about how to shrink "crunch" openbsd to a 
> smaller size for a dedicated firewall/vpn server running from a Flash 
> Drive such as the USB drives below @ tigerdirect.
> 
>  http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=L61-3176
> 
> The above is a 128 meg. usb drive that is suppose to be recognized by 
> the bios as a regular hd. If 128 is not enough they also have the 256 
> version. This drive is also need because you can flip a dip switch to 
> physically lock the drive from writes and i was thinking of having my 
> firewall log to a nfs partition so i can lock the usb drive.
> 
> There is embsd but i would like to make my own from openbsd 3.3 to take 
> advantage of the new abilities pf has and the pro police compiler 
> extensions.  Also i was thinking of how to move all the compilers and 
> other apps not needed for a firewall to a cd and then just put in the cd 
> and mount it when i need those apps. If anyone has done this or knows of 
> some documentation that might help i would appreciate the info.