Murray Taylor <murr...@bytecraftsystems.com> wrote: Google for minibsd

http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html

I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143 quite successfully

mjt

Thanks - this is interesting. However, this is still somewhat of a brute force
method for piecing things together - I thought there was some kind of elegant
mechanism where you could edit make.conf or something, so that when you did a
make world, it would skip the components that you didn't want to - and you could
control it with much more granularity than you can in the custom menu in
sysinstall ... does this sound familiar at all ?

That is, forget that I am doing solid state / flash at all - what is the correct
way to install FreeBSD without things like ppp, isdn, and other pieces of the
_base_ system that you don't want ?

thanks.