Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:40:29 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mark VandeWettering <markv@pixar.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breathing New life into an Laptop Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902082237330.1733-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <9902081045.ZM801040@omnipotus>
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Mark VandeWettering wrote: > 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. Yep. I recently received an LS-120 floppy - I'll do some work on it, and I'll try to adjust the upcoming PicoBSD 0.50 to be able to use media of varying sizes... > 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.. Yes, this is of course possible, and even sometimes desirable. As you say: > A couple of things I'd like to fix though: Patches are more than welcome! :-) Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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