Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:02:18 +0000 From: "Richard P. Williamson" <richard.williamson@u4eatech.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org, "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com> Subject: Re: PicoBSD diskless embedded 'where to start' Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040206093603.023dd880@cygnus> In-Reply-To: <200402052108.i15L8mXr000264@mail.cruzio.com> References: <200402052108.i15L8mXr000264@mail.cruzio.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I've looked through man picobsd, as well as the docs supplied with the scripts themselves; I've found them both to be structured other than the way my brain works. Polite way of admitting that I've not figured them out yet :\ And your link I like, it has what I'm looking for...pardon me while I bookmark that puppy. rip At 21:08 05/02/2004, Bruce R. Montague wrote: > Hi, Richard. re: > > > ... can I ask here about steps to take? > > The following "FAQ" is somewhat dated (being most >specific to FreeBSD 4.3) but is thorough and has >helped a lot of people get up to speed on PicoBSD: > > http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm > > http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm > > > Current versions of FreeBSD (other than perhaps >"bridge" will not likely fit on a floppy. However, >if you read over this doc and customize a picobsd >to your needs, picobsd can work great. I've run >picobsd booting off SanDisk CD a good bit. You >can also do neat stuff like netboot piocbsd pretty >easily. > > Some folks inquired about folding some of this >doc into FreeBSD doc a good while back, and at >one time that was someone's intent, but the problem >seems to be that picobsd is a bit brittle in that >as FreeBSD versions change and grow, there are often >minor "breakage" and size issues with picobsd. >It's a slight moving target. > >More people probably use picobsd to "roll >their own version" than just use the standard >configs. > >This picobsd "FAQ" was aimed at encouraging >students to get into embedded systems, so there's >a lot of stuff in it that is not specific to >FreeBSD/PicoBSD, and I never got around to >going back and cleaning it up. > >The "man picobsd" page is now fairly extensive. > > > > - bruce -- Richard Williamson richard.williamson@u4eatech.com U4EA Technologies Ltd +44 (0) 117 373 6760 Bristol, UK BS1 6PL x5030
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.0.1.1.1.20040206093603.023dd880>