Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:59:18 -0600 From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com> To: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NanoBSD :: smallest image size Message-ID: <499D81D6.3020908@datapipe.com> In-Reply-To: <200902191631.37665.milu@dat.pl> References: <499D67B6.60309@datapipe.com> <200902191631.37665.milu@dat.pl>
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Maciej Milewski wrote: > Thursday 19 February 2009 15:07:50 Paul Procacci napisał(a): > >> After looking >> through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that >> seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this >> question. I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image >> size possible using NanoBSD. So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the >> proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an >> old computer bootable off of a usb stick? How can I tell without buying >> one? >> > I think that it will be quite hard to make it running from floppy. If you don't > want to install it on this HD (f.ex. because of noise) then you can replace > HDD with Disk-On-Module or CF card with CF-IDE adapter. > With booting from usb on such rather old computers I had so many problems that > I went for other options like these mentioned above. > > Maciek > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > This information was precisely what I was looking for. Thank you. ~Paul
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