From owner-freebsd-small Wed Aug 5 22:53:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03651 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl ([148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03644 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:53:46 -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 HAA22737; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:56:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:56:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Randal S. Masutani" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! In-Reply-To: <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com> 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 Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Randal S. Masutani wrote: > 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? Next week. > 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) I'll think about it. I'm not saying "no", but most people use the compressed version which can fit onto a floppy... and you can easily do that version yourself :-) > 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. Yes, this was configuration error, and it is corrected in the new version. Andrzej Bialecki +---------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ | | When in problem or in | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { | | Research & Academic | doubt, run in circles, | fetch("FreeBSD"); | | Network in Poland | scream and shout. | } | + --------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message