Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:45:04 -0800 From: "Mark VandeWettering" <markv@pixar.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Breathing New life into an Laptop Message-ID: <9902081045.ZM801040@omnipotus>
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I picked up a small color laptop made by compaq at a recent swapmeet for a song. It has a 486dx/25, about 120 Mb of disk, and 12mb of ram. I built a nice version of the dialup picobsd floppy for it, and it works great. I use the lp0 interface to wire it up via laplink cable to my real desktop machine and can use ftp and telnet. A couple of things I'd like to fix though: a) Booting from floppy. While I don't have hoards of disk space, I wouldn't mind dedicating the necessary space for picobsd to be loaded from disk, which would be oodles faster. I know long ago there used to be fbsdboot.exe, but I couldn't locate that anymore, and was unsure how it would work with the ELF kernel in anycase. b) Once we are booting from hard drive, it makes some sense to expand the distribution with some other tools since we aren't as tightly limited on space. I'd kind of like to have vi, and a couple of unix tools like grep. I kind of envisioned these living inside an msdos file, and using the vnode stuff to create a filesystem for it. That would enable you to make a fairly competent system. You might imagine it possible (although on my machine it might be pushing it) to create a nice x-terminal using approach. Thanks in advance.. Mark -- Mark T. VandeWettering Telescope Information (and more) Email: <markv@pixar.com> http://www.idle.com/~markv/ No Code International Member #1173 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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