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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:44:28 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "nanobsd" prototype
Message-ID:  <6.0.1.1.1.20040311204212.040a8230@imap.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403111213470.87340-100000@InterJet.elischer .org>
References:  <53045.1079035854@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403111213470.87340-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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At 20:19 11/03/2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > As I understand it picoBSD has never managed the 4.x->5.x transition
> > and is scheduled to be removed if nobody starts paying attention
> > to it soon.
>
>I may be looking at it soon as it still produces a smaller system than
>'nanoBSD' and works well for systems with old 8MB flash.

   Just a general reminder about building small images: NetBSD's makefs
(available as ports/sysutils/makefs) creates disk images a few % smaller
than those built via memory disks.

Colin Percival




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