From owner-freebsd-small Wed Dec 15 11:39:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from patrick.whetstonelogic.com (patrick.whetstonelogic.com [205.252.46.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B8314C09 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@patrick.whetstonelogic.com) Received: (from patrick@localhost) by patrick.whetstonelogic.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA62713; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:34:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from patrick) Message-Id: <199912151934.OAA62713@patrick.whetstonelogic.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:34:54 -0500 (EST) From: patrick@whetstonelogic.com Subject: Re: some picobsd things To: dcs@newsguy.com Cc: luigi@info.iet.unipi.it, small@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3857E1C4.B0CCCD06@newsguy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Dec, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> >> while trying to revise picobsd configuration etc, i notice a >> fair amount of space on the boot floppy is eaten by: >> 1) the loader configuration files in /boot >> >> For #1, it appears that we can save gzipped versions of these files >> on the floppy, and the loader is happy to read them without any problem >> so i would suggest for post-3.4R the above change to the "stage1" script. >> This saves some 15-20KB i think > > It seems picobsd is using rather fancy scripts with loader. I don't > think we need them any more than we need rc/rc.conf. Take a look at > loader.rc that Greg is using with his new PicoBSD build. It's a streamed > down version that has just what you need (assuming you don't need to > configure kernel/save settings). A little background information from my research on this... The fancy scripts were added to allow for using Forth as a way to develop the rc/rc.conf material and to configure kernel and save settings. It was a first step that hasn't gone any farther. I've been learning Forth to build upon it, but I'm not there yet. Adding ficl was a small price to pay for allowing us to use it in user space. I believe the mail trail was named "Unified Configuration Interface". Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message