Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! Message-ID: <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808050855590.21691-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On 5 Aug 98, at 9:12, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm almost finished with preparing the new release of PicoBSD, and I'll > let you know when it's available for download... this is only to let you > know what are some exciting new features :-) I'm very anxious to try out the new version. When could we expect it? I just got some new 10MB IDE Flash modules today! I will be testing them on a PC/104 386 card w/8MB RAM. I will test booting and updating config files from IDE Flash. Can you make a version that does not use compression on the kernel? (since I have such a large IDE Flash size) One reason I'm want to try this method is because it is very slow to decompress the kernel on a 386. I would like it to boot much faster. BTW, I also have noticed something odd. When booting from floppy with a write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just mounting the floppy. Why is that? Does mounting the floppy cause a write to it? This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk. This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive. I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD. Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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