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Does anyone know of a well-supported equivalent to FreeBSD's NanoBSD build system (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html http://www.freebsd.
by bconway 16y ago
Does anyone know of a well-supported equivalent to FreeBSD's NanoBSD build system (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html) on OpenBSD? I've been using a FreeBSD since '96 and love how easy it is to build, distribute, and maintain NanoBSD images in any number of places (embedded firewalls like Alix, VMs that support HVM, etc). Pf is a little outdated in FreeBSD now (patchable to 4.5), and having the original would be nice.
- silentbicycle 16y agoI'm not familiar with that package, but there have been several openbsd-misc threads about running on nothing but a CF card, particularly on constrained platforms like Soekris boards. That's probably a good starting point. I haven't put OpenBSD on a real "embedded" system, but I've installed it on stripped-down, ancient attic hardware over null modems. I don't doubt that it would scale down even further. It makes an incredibly dependable firewall.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoThere's flashdist, but the consensus seems to be 'disk/flash is cheap and OpenBSD is small, just install a full system'. (Where 'full' means full userland; you can easily leave off the compiler, X, games and man pages.)