diff --git a/config/redbear-mini.toml b/config/redbear-mini.toml
index fc2cd22b17..241e295a11 100644
--- a/config/redbear-mini.toml
+++ b/config/redbear-mini.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ redbear-btusb = {}
 redbear-iwlwifi = {}
 redbear-firmware-iwlwifi = {}
 
+# Shared CLI library for redbear-* tools (standardized --help, --version, --log-level, etc.)
+redbear-cli = {}
+
 # Redox-native netctl tooling.
 redbear-netctl = {}
 redbear-netctl-console = {}
@@ -48,10 +51,13 @@ redbear-nmap = {}
 # below; see [init] section. Provides positive + negative caching and an
 # mDNS responder so the loopback resolver hits cache before upstream.
 redbear-dnsd = {}
-redbear-firmware = {}
-redbear-firmware-amdgpu = {}
+# NB: text-only mini ships ONLY the small NIC/BT firmware (redbear-firmware-iwlwifi
+# ~444K above + redbear-firmware-bluetooth ~444K). The GPU/generic firmware —
+# redbear-firmware (~1.9G), redbear-firmware-intel (~396M),
+# redbear-firmware-amdgpu (~111M) — is desktop-only dead weight in a text console
+# (no GPU accel in text mode); it blew the image ~3G past budget and overflowed
+# the installer. Removed here; it belongs to redbear-full.
 redbear-firmware-bluetooth = {}
-redbear-firmware-intel = {}
 firmware-loader = {}
 redbear-wifictl = {}
 redbear-btctl = {}