Subject: Re: current port-vax status
To: Chris Wareham <chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk>
From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/07/2006 22:45:56
On Tue 28 Feb 2006 at 10:06:06 +0000, Chris Wareham wrote:
> It would be very useful if the NetBSD website had documentation
> describing how to strip down the kernel and userland for embedded
> systems. There was a short mailing list thread a while ago that
> described an attempt at producing the most minimalist NetBSD install
> possible, but something official (that showed how to build without PAM
> support for example) would be great.

Stuff can be made fairly minimal - I have a stripped down NetBSD/sun3 to
run as an X server and nothing else (netbooting). There is not even an
init binary: it has been replaced by a shell script.

-Olaf.
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