On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Masami and Ken Nakata wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by the "pared down", but I think you should
> take a look at the FreeBSD installation.  They've come up with an
> interesting method to spare as many a bit on the disk(ette) as
> possible.  Basically, they statically link every command you need into
> *one single* binary executable which, when run, changes its behavior
> by looking at argv[0].  This way, you store only one copy of each
> library function that is shared among the commands, thus conserving
> the precious disk space.

NetBSD has this too, BTW... see /usr/src/distrib/crunch. The i386 port
uses it for the install floppies, and I'm sure other ports use it too.
/usr/src/distrib/mac68k/inst-common/Makefile.inc even seems to use the
crunch stuff, though I'm not sure for what... :)
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