From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 26 21: 8:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from pimout4-int.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.58.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FF614D38 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjgraham@prodigy.net) Received: from oemcomputer (DLL2B109-18.splitrock.net [209.252.155.114]) by pimout4-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA92918; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:08:14 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01bed7e6$5c649c60$729bfcd1@oemcomputer> From: "Wilma Graham" To: Subject: Using picoBSD with COM4 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:13:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01BED7BC.738E9460" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BED7BC.738E9460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Sir/Madam: I have successfully installed picoBSD on a floppy, but have been = unable to get it to dial out on my modem. My modem is on COM4 and I = don't believe the appropriate com device is in /dev. Any ideas? Thanks. Steve Graham ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BED7BC.738E9460 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Sir/Madam:
 
   I have successfully = installed=20 picoBSD on a floppy, but have been unable to get it to dial out on my=20 modem.  My modem is on COM4 and I don't believe the appropriate com = device=20 is in /dev.  Any ideas?
 
   Thanks.
 
 
Steve Graham
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BED7BC.738E9460-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 27 2:44:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from linux.tsu.tula.ru (linux.tsu.tula.ru [62.76.50.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB9514E4F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 02:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander_Muhin@p21.f2.klax.tsu.tula.ru) Received: (from root@localhost) by linux.tsu.tula.ru (8.9.2/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) id NAA17015 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:42:06 +0400 (EEST) Received: from p21.f2.klax.tsu.tula.ru by p13.f5.klax.tsu.tula.ru with FTN (ifmail v.2.10.os) id AA17011; Tue, 27 Jul 99 13:42:06 +0400 Apparently-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org To: "freebsd-small@freebsd.org" From: Alexander Muhin Date: Tue, 27 Jul 99 12:28:12 +0400 Subject: Message-ID: <2044181856@p21.f2.n5022.z2> X-FTN-FLAGS: PVT K/S X-FTN-MSGID: 2:5022/2.21 79d7bd60 X-FTN-Forwarded: by T-Mail 2606.OS2 2:5022/2.21@fidonet, 27 Jul 99 13:28:58 X-FTN-Via: 2:5022/2.21@fidonet @19990727.132858.UTC+4 T-Mail 2606.OS2 X-FTN-Via: 2:5022/2@FidoNet @19990727.103127.58.UTC Itrack+ 1.3/G5 274373 X-FTN-Via: 2:5022/2@fidonet @19990727.133415.UTC+4 T-Mail 2604.OS2 X-FTN-Via: 2:5022/5 FTrack 2.04.b2/W32 27 Jul 1999 09:35:14 UTC+0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG list help To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 27 8:59:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059AC1528B for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:59:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E280A1911; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:59:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B8A49D4; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:59:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:59:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Wilma Graham Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using picoBSD with COM4 In-Reply-To: <000a01bed7e6$5c649c60$729bfcd1@oemcomputer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Wilma Graham wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: > > I have successfully installed picoBSD on a floppy, but have been > unable to get it to dial out on my modem. My modem is on COM4 and I > don't believe the appropriate com device is in /dev. Any ideas? > When you boot for the first time, you automatically enter the UserConfig editor which lets you edit kernel parameters. simply change I/O port and IRQ line of either sio0 or sio1 to match COM4, i.e. IOport=0x2e8, IRQ=3. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 5:45: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from well.apcs.com.au (modem28.nelsonbay.com [203.12.6.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FB415478 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 05:44:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@well.apcs.com.au) Received: (from keith@localhost) by well.apcs.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) id KAA69346 for freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:53:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from keith) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199907241829.LAA25306@h4.private> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:53:00 +1000 (EST) From: Keith Anderson To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: 186 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All Can I put PICOBSD on a 186 ? Keith ANderson "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson Australia Power Control Systems Pty. Limited. Date: 25-Jul-99 Time: 10:50:43 Satelite Service 64K to 2Meg This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 11:10:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8277514D17 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA30990; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:07:31 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199907281807.UAA30990@gratis.grondar.za> To: Keith Anderson Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 186 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:07:30 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can I put PICOBSD on a 186 ? No. Nothing less than a 386. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 15:58:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [204.188.6.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A78AD14CCA for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unfurl@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 20184 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Jul 1999 22:58:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:58:38 -0700 From: Bill Swingle To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSDCon & PicoBSD Message-ID: <19990728155838.A20154@dub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I'm looking for someone or a few ppl that might be interested in giving a talk at the upcoming FreeBSDCon on PicoBSD installation/usage. Anyone that gives a talk gets int othe conference for free of course :) If anyone is interested please let me know. -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 20:13:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from daedal.oneway.com (daedal.oneway.com [205.252.89.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5299814D3B for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jay@oneway.com) Received: from localhost (jay@localhost) by daedal.oneway.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA03033 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:12:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jay@oneway.com) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:12:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Kuri To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Using PicoBSD to create bootable FlashRoms Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm writing because I am now using PicoBSD to create flash-rom images (8M) which are dd-able directly onto a flashrom. I don't know if other people have done this before or not, but I find it extremely useful. Anyway, I will send details of the process tomorrow... But I wanted to find out if anyone was interested, or if anyone else had done this type of thing before and would like to swap notes.... cheers, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 20:18: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5558A154DF for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmarketinggrp@worldnet.att.net) Received: from oemcomputer ([12.75.151.208]) by mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with SMTP id <19990729031747.JHXL8676@oemcomputer>; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 03:17:47 +0000 Message-ID: <000801bed970$ab08d580$d0974b0c@oemcomputer> From: "Charisse Witherspoon" To: "Jay Kuri" , Subject: Re: Using PicoBSD to create bootable FlashRoms Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:15:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Jay, Thanks for the post. I'm very interested in your picoBSD Flash ROM details. -----Original Message----- From: Jay Kuri To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 10:14 PM Subject: Using PicoBSD to create bootable FlashRoms > >Hello, > > I'm writing because I am now using PicoBSD to create flash-rom >images (8M) which are dd-able directly onto a flashrom. I don't know if >other people have done this before or not, but I find it extremely useful. > >Anyway, I will send details of the process tomorrow... But I wanted to >find out if anyone was interested, or if anyone else had done this type of >thing before and would like to swap notes.... > >cheers, >Jay > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 20:22:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C111B154E6 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA71711; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:20:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA73602; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:21:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199907290321.VAA73602@harmony.village.org> To: Jay Kuri Subject: Re: Using PicoBSD to create bootable FlashRoms Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:12:12 EDT." References: Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:21:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Jay Kuri writes: : I'm writing because I am now using PicoBSD to create flash-rom : images (8M) which are dd-able directly onto a flashrom. I don't know if : other people have done this before or not, but I find it extremely useful. What kind of flash rom? I've been making bootable ATA flash cards for some time now with the standard tools... Nothing to do with PicoBSD, but still interesting... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 28 20:22:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from thetics.europa.com (thetics.europa.com [209.20.130.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8613F14D3A for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mb@thetics.europa.com) Received: from thetics.europa.com (mb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thetics.europa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24615; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907290322.UAA24615@thetics.europa.com> To: Jay Kuri Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using PicoBSD to create bootable FlashRoms In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:12:12 EDT." Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:22:31 -0700 From: mb@thetics.europa.com Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This comes at a perfect time, as I have just sent away for a PC110... Lets compare notes soon! -mark According to a mail server, Jay Kuri wrote: > >Hello, > > I'm writing because I am now using PicoBSD to create flash-rom >images (8M) which are dd-able directly onto a flashrom. I don't know if >other people have done this before or not, but I find it extremely useful. > >Anyway, I will send details of the process tomorrow... But I wanted to >find out if anyone was interested, or if anyone else had done this type of >thing before and would like to swap notes.... > >cheers, >Jay > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jul 30 10:45:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from ganymede.or.intel.com (ganymede.or.intel.com [134.134.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81083151CD; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roy.s.nielsen@intel.com) Received: from orsmsx28.jf.intel.com (orsmsx28.jf.intel.com [192.168.65.28]) by ganymede.or.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id KAA22014; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by orsmsx28.jf.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:45:25 -0700 Message-ID: <9ABEE73CE8D0D211AC4300A0C96B345CA64366@fmsmsx53.fm.intel.com> From: "Nielsen, Roy S" To: "'freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: bootloader.... Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:44:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm looking at booting(embedded devices) and I've been looking at lilo boot loader code and booteasy bootloader code... does anyone know of any documentation that anyone out there has done on this topic? -- more specifically without bios calls/support? I've seen the booteasy code at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/srcs/bteasy/ is there a newer version? this code is supposed to be compiled with TASM/Borland C right? is there source that can be compiled with gnu tools? I'll take any and all suggestions :) Thanks, -roy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jul 30 15: 6:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from daedal.oneway.com (daedal.oneway.com [205.252.89.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8799C151F7 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jay@oneway.com) Received: from localhost (jay@localhost) by daedal.oneway.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA22969 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:03:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jay@oneway.com) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:03:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Kuri To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HowTo: Making bootable FlashRom Images. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Late but not forgotten... Skip to the very bottom for the ultra-short version. These are the instructions for making bootable FlashRom images using PicoBSD 0.44. The devices I use are have an IDE-controller chip which makes them look to the system like IDE drives. But there is no reason that these instructions can't be applied to another type of flash rom with only minor modifications. The process is suprisingly easy. First you need to know the layout of your device. IE: it's disklabel. The roms I use masquerade as IDE drives, so I just created a standard disklabel using the geometry of the drive as taken from the bios. The easiest way to do this if you have the device hooked up to a running FreeBSD system, is to go into sysinstall and set it up in the partition/label section. Basically what you have to do is create an entry in the /etc/disktab file. For our 8M flash, this is the disktab entry we used: flash8:\ :dt=ESDI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#4:ns#16:nc#250:\ :pa#16000:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\ :pc#16000:oc#0: The first line is the key (name) of the disktab entry, the second line sets the geometry of the drive, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track and 250 cylinders (nt#4, ns#16, and nc#250). The third line sets the 'a' slice, occupying the whole disk (pa#16000 or 16000 sectors, oa#0 (offset 0)), and containing a ffs (4.2BSD) filesystem. Then the 'c' slice is defined, again with the pc#16000 and oc#0 values. (see the top of the disktab file for a better explanation of disktab entries) Now comes the modifications. Remember that this is based on the 0.44 PicoBSD distribution, not the new Makefile-based one. I don't know how different it is... In the stage3 file, find the line that contains the dd to picobsd.bin command (about line 20). The count parameter will be set to 1440. This is the size in K. For my rom, I use 8000 (since that is the actual size of our rom). This value will be half the pc# value we entered above. Then we go down to the disklabel line (~ line 36). Find the fd1440 and replace it with the key you entered in the disktab file. For this example, 'flash8' is the correct value. Depending on the size of your MFS filesystem, you may want to increase the INODES in stage1. That covers the changes you need to make in the scripts. There are some other changes that need to be made in order for your new PicoBSD-Flash to work. Your best bet is to create a custom picobsd type (just copy the one that most closely matches the features you want). I used net. The first thing you have to do is make sure that your PicoBSD kernel supports whatever type of device your flash drive is detected as. Since ours is an IDE device, we need to enable the ide devices (wdc0, wd0, wd1, etc). You do this by editing the PICOBSD config file in the conf/ directory. You also have to add the devices to your MFS filesystem. You do this by editing the Makefile in the mfs.tree directory. On approximately line 37, add the devices for your IDE drive (wd0h is a good way to get all of the slices you need), along with any other devices you want (I added ttyd0 for my console port). Now that you have support for your IDE device configured into your PicoBSD kernel, and the devices set up, you have to change the way the system boots. Normally after PicoBSD boots, it mounts the floppy drive and copys files off of it onto the MFS filesystem it created. Obviously, we need to make it mount the flash instead. There are two files you need to change to do this. These files are in the lang directory. Edit the mfs.rc.(language) file (in my case mfs.rc.en) and find the line that mounts the floppy ( ~ line 24) and change the fd0 device to your flash device. I used wd0c. Now edit the update.(language) script and do the same thing, make sure you get the umount command as well). WARNING: If you enter the wrong device or do not create the device nodes, your flash will NOT work, it will enter a horrible infinite loop running /etc/rc again and again until you reboot. Thats it. When you run the build script, and select your custom configuration, it will create a picobsd.bin file that is the correct size for your flash device. You should be able to dd the file directly onto your flash and then boot from it. Oh.. and one last thing. Be VERY careful when dumping the image to your flash (esp. if it is an IDE-type) because it is very easy to mistype and overwrite your REAL drive with your picobsd distribution. Let me tell you, until I did that, I'd never seen a FreeBSD machine die so hideously. =) Good luck, and please send me feedback and/or better ways to do these things. Take it easy, Jay PS: Short version: 1: create a disktab entry for your flash device 2: edit stage3 so that it creates the right size picobsd.bin image and uses the disktab entry you created (instead of fd1440) to disklabel the file. 2a: If you are going to have a larger MFS filesystem, edit INODES in stage1. 3: Add your flashrom device to the PICOBSD kernel config file (wd0 in our case) 4: Add your flashrom device to the Makefile in mfs.tree 5: Edit lang/mfs.rc.(lang) so that it mounts the flash device instead of the floppy device. 5a: Edit lang/update.(lang) to do the same. 6: build it, dd it and watch it work. =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jul 30 16:53:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from accutek.com (accutek.com [204.212.171.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F79D15751 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pkunk@i.am) Received: from firemoth (fury.accutek.com [204.212.171.195]) by accutek.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA12499 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:53:20 -0700 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:53:19 -0700 Message-ID: <01BEDAAC.06BB97A0.pkunk@i.am> From: Pkunk Fury To: "freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Using PicoBSD to create bootable FlashRoms Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:53:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:12 PM, Jay Kuri [SMTP:jay@oneway.com] wrote: | | Hello, | | I'm writing because I am now using PicoBSD to create flash-rom | images (8M) which are dd-able directly onto a flashrom. I don't know if | other people have done this before or not, but I find it extremely useful. | | Anyway, I will send details of the process tomorrow... But I wanted to | find out if anyone was interested, or if anyone else had done this type of | thing before and would like to swap notes.... | | cheers, | Jay I've been using PicoBSD on flashdisks for over a year now. Started with 4meg disks, and currently we're using 32M disks, from SanDisk. Works very well for us. From my experience, very minimal modifications to the build scripts were needed. - --L .----------------------------------------------------------. | Lawrence D. Cotnam Jr. pkunk@i.am | `----------------------------------------------------------' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBN6I67ne+r6w4rLl9EQIKqQCeOUGNh7Gt/8BJ1VoufQoTBcnu7VEAn2LX F66zmKdq1Rb6TbDDFbJXsSYY =ej6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message