From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 22:31:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403FA16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:31:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A470B43D41 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisfox8@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (c-24-16-141-70.client.comcast.net[24.16.141.70]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004020606314301100t6meke> (Authid: chrisfox8@comcast.net); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 06:31:43 +0000 Message-ID: <402334CE.5050806@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:31:42 -0800 From: Chris Fox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org References: <200402051205.i15C59F05666@cygnus.degree2.com> <022601c3ec3a$9a9218b0$0fce75d8@cybertime.net> In-Reply-To: <022601c3ec3a$9a9218b0$0fce75d8@cybertime.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PicoBSD diskless embedded 'where to start' X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 06:31:46 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cybertime Hostmaster wrote: |>I'm trying to put together a diskless embedded system based on |>the PicoBSD scripts supplied with FreeBSD 4.8R. | | | | Just as a point of interest, any special reason why PicoBSD? | | |>1) I need to build a PicoBSD system that will boot from a flash device |>(SanDisk at the moment, may need support for M-Systems DiskOnChip later) | | | The smallest M-Systems seems to have is 16 MB. You beat me to it. The typical flash drive sold now is 128MB and if you have the money you can go up to 2GB. You can boot any number of operating systems from that kind of storage, and they don't need to be stripped down. Even the very smallest flash drive I ever heard of, 16MB, holds eleven floppies worth of data; enough for a fairly complete FreeBSD OS and room left for config data. Interesting project by the way. Though I bet booting off USB has alredy been done somewhere. - -- Chris Fox, Windows User, Linux User (#341856), non-partisan "[The multiplicity of reality at large] is an inescapable consequence of [quantum theory's] allowing superpositions of what classical physics would regard as mutually exclusive alternatives." ~ -- Michael Lockwood /Brit. J. Phil. Sci./ (1995) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAIzTN9jaRInQzvmsRApfHAKDkiw+Evx4tvJGAICtjv/4KnI2gcgCfY1YP bQ4roaY7WBHCMmDicB6bQlA= =paF1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----