From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jun 29 04:49:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01089 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 04:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01064 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 04:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11463; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:52:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:52:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Dinesh Nair cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd on 386 (fwd) 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 On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Which version was it? 2.2.5 or 3.0 -based? This is significant (and it can > > 2.2.5. Ok. What does it say when sizing available memory chunks (in both cases)i right after uncompressing the kernel? Perhaps also booting with -v would help. It also might be that he did everything on one console (less processes running), run ppp in background and moved very carefully all the time, etc... Anyway, I must admit it surprises me a bit :-) I thought it would take significant amount of hacking to achieve this, and it seems we're that close -><-. I put much hope in writing custom init(8), and getting rid of the shell - instead writing specialized UI. This could fly in 4MB... Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message