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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
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This information was precisely what I was looking for.  Thank you.

~Paul



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