Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "nanobsd" prototype Message-ID: <200403131834.i2DIYmuF000335@mail.cruzio.com>
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* Those putting cut-down FreeBSD on CF systems and the like might be interested in a brief summary of some available scripts/systems put together by Sean Lazar, "FreeBSD on Small Board Computers": http://www.thirdbreak.org/presentation/ Sean's with a group around here (www.thirdbreak.org/) working with 802.11 community wireless on the soekris systems. They seem to really like wifibsd: http://www.thirdbreak.org/presentation/html/slide_9.html http://www.wifibsd.org/ >From Sean's demo, the wifi script seems to act pretty much like the picobsd script, except it ends up building a device image that has a normal FreeBSD system, with user-selected files removed. A number of pre-exisitng "profiles" exist as starting points for your own CF, live CD, or pxeboot system. Sean analyzed 5 "sysgen scripts" as to resulting system size and functionality and as to what he called "additive" (it starts empty, you tell it what files/dirs to add) or "subtractive" (you start with everything and tell it what to take out). * Incidently, a "WifiBSD Status Report" appears in the FreeBSD "March-September 2003 Status Report": http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2003-sep-2003.html#WifiBSD-Status-Report http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2003-sep-2003.html They appear to be targetting the "out-of-box access point", but many of the issues are similar to nanobsd and similiar systems. Some of their files containing lists of working FreeBSD file subsets might be of interest to others... "Contact: Jon Disnard <masta@wifibsd.org> WifiBSD is a miniture version of FreeBSD for wireless applications. Originally for the Soekris Net45xx line of main-boards, but is now capable of being targeted to any hardware/architecture FreeBSD itself supports. Although not feature complete, WifiBSD is expected to be ready for 5.2-RELEASE. The design goal is to meet, or exceed, the functionality of commercial/consumer 802.11 wireless gear. Features that need attention (to name just a few) are: http interface, consol menu interface, and installation. Volunters are welcome." - bruce
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