Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:44:45 +0000 From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee@gmx.net> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone has a minimal bsd for download? Message-ID: <20020817134445.B121@slackware.example.net> In-Reply-To: <3D5FA61B.7090603@die.supsi.ch>; from nunnari@die.supsi.ch on Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:50:19PM %2B0200 References: <3D5FA61B.7090603@die.supsi.ch>
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > What about http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html ?? > I know it's a <<bit>> out of date, but if you just wanna try > bsd on a single floppy... Picobsd is crunched, it is a single file with only the necessary binaries. People say it is secure this way. It does not have libraries. I have try to copy everything into a bsd partition, boot it, but I cannot run other binaries like vim or mutt I can download from freebsd mirror. In slackware (linux), I can download a rescue floppy, copy everything into a partition and I have a usable system. I can get other binaries and it will run fine. > >>>>On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:08:43PM +0000, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Only binaries and libraries, enough to get going. I will download the > >>>>>rest as I need. Thank you. > >>>>> > >>In this mailing list there was a mention about a web page. I use this > >>info and have now a 486 running on a flash disk. The web page is at: > >> > >>http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > >> > > > > I cannot derive a small bsd from the standard distribution because I do > > not have the standard distribution. My situation is: my connection is > > slow and I do not want to download a very big file, or many small files > > that will be combine into a big file. In addition, I only have a 20 MB > > partition to try out BSD. > > > > > >>Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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