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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:53:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>
To:        Dylan Fermoyle <dfer@esatclear.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enquiry
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002201850280.8965-100000@sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <000501bf7c03$7f2d8920$5ba1a5c2@default>

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dylan Fermoyle wrote:

> Hello there,
>         I am trying to learn about bsd and have got a shell
> on my friends box,
> I currently connect using telnet from windows to his
> computer. He recently told
> me that if i didnt want to install bsd on my pc I could
> download something from www.freebsd.org
> that would allow me to boot bsd from a floppy disk at
> startup and that I would then be able to connect to his box
> using the telnet command. I have searched your site for this
> version of bsd and havent been able to find it...
> could you please tell me if this exists and if so the
> address I need to download it from?
> Thank you very much ,
>     Dylan.

What you want is PicoBSD, which is a tiny implementation of FreeBSD
designed to be run from small (sometimes embedded) systems.  More
information can be found at:

http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/

- Ryan

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