From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 18 15:59:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19907 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:59:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19902 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:59:53 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24390; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:46 +0200." Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:59:40 -0700 Message-ID: <24386.892940380@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I seem to have some crazy ideas from time to time... Here's one of them. Heh. Not so crazy. This was first proposed about 3 years ago for the same general purpose - how to create quick and easy FreeBSD demo systems (you could even have the complete "preinstalled image" available as a much larger file if the user just wanted to grab a "typical" FreeBSD system and try it). I think it was jealously concerning Linux's "UMSDOS" filesystem and its frequent use for exactly this purpose that first led people to think of it. :) It should theoretically be possible, nobody's simply bothered to work out the details. It would, for another thing, be very slow (as Linux's UMSDOS is) and I think that's sort of dampened people's enthusiasm for the idea in the past, but if you're keen to try it I still think there'd be legitimate interest in it. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message