doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-02 Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one?

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Tore Lund
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? The boot-only

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
A bit more work perhaps than you're willing or able to commit, but you might be interested in MiniBSD - a set of scripts that enable you to pare down a base FreeBSD system to something very small indeed. Thank you, I will definitely check that out.

Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install

2007-10-02 Thread Joe in MPLS
Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:59:55PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot