Date: 08 May 1998 21:14:11 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD Message-ID: <xzpemy4y3r0.fsf@gnipahellir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells"'s message of "Fri, 8 May 1998 10:06:47 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508100631.223A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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"Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> writes: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ben Cohen wrote: > > People keep mentioning PicoBSD. > > I assume that this is a small version of FreeBSD, rather than an > > alternative like NetBSD. > > > > Is it a version of FreeBSD that runs off a floppy? > Yes it is. Aw c'mon, Jason, you can do better than this... :) To quote the PicoBSD page (<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/>), PicoBSD is a one-floppy version of FreeBSD 3.0-current, which in its different variations allows you to have secure dialup access, small diskless router or even a dial-in server. And all this on only one standard 1.44MB floppy - no need to sacrifice over 100MB of your precious HDD space. In other words, you can build a floppy with a kernel and all the required binaries and configuration files to e.g. run a processor server or a firewall on a diskless computer. Actually, there's no reason why you couldn't use PicoBSD on a a computer *with* a disk - set up a 2 MB slice for the system and use the rest of the disk for swap. Great if you need lots of horsepower and RAM but very little disk I/O: RC5/DES/RSA/whatever cracking, "industrial-grade" raytracing, you name it. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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