Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:57:19 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com> Cc: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's our standard "stripped-down FreeBSD" tool? Message-ID: <20070726195719.GA98201@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <d3ea75b30707261121y32b48670ye71e6e95ccfaeea0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070725022141.GA17703@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <d3ea75b30707261121y32b48670ye71e6e95ccfaeea0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:21:50PM -0300, Eduardo Meyer wrote: > > I have been using all mentioned options, plus, minibsd. Honestly, I > would recommend anyone to use TinyBSD, as long as: > > - You dont need to do cross building; > - You can read a few instructions on a help screen or interactively > answer some questions; > > This is what I mention because TinyBSD wont do cross building because > it does not compile the whome world. Instead, it copies the already > compiled and in production ones. Also because tinyBSD have a good > README file, not no man page nor sgmlized docs. > > I know people are addressing those issues, regarding SGML doc, but it > does not exist right now. The first issue is also getting addressed on > the -CURRENT version of TinyBSD (cvs only, maybe on the website too - > tinybsd.org), but it is not ready. According to patrick tracanelli > TinyBSD will heavily be addressed to build ARM systems. And to do so, > cross building is a must be. However, it is not present right now. > > I have added TinyBSD to flash discs, to CF cards, to memory sticks and > also on optical drives. On CD/DVD it is just a matter of building an > ISO with mkisofs and adding one extra line on kernel conf file. No > "special magic" that requires using a whole other framework. > > I can also choose if I want tinyBSD to act as a live system, depending > on the booted media, or if I want it to work as MFS system, which will > never access the media once it is booted. It is specially good on > memory sticks. It is a feature Julian Elischer contributed, if I > remember the commit message correctly. > > TinyBSD also have pre-defined config files ready to build, just like > picobsd used to. If you aim to make a FreeBSD system aimed for > PCEngine's WRAP for example, you will save yourself a LOT of work and > study on why NanoBSD, FreesBIE or anything else wont work on Wrap, and > do the necessary changes, while TinyBSD has a ready-to-go predefined > conf, so you will only spend your time on customization of the system. > Not studying how to make it, at least, boot. > [...] For the archives: http://pcengines.ch/wrap1c.pdf explains the problem and how to fix it. To sum up: Just remove atkbd*, psm and vga lines from your kernel configuration file. -- Marc
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