Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:26:30 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: <liquid@liquidonline.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <013b01c269d4$451d5a50$22ec910c@DaleCoportable> References: <000001c269d2$eba87690$6400a8c0@windows>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
From: "Liquid" <liquid@liquidonline.ca>
To: "'Gary W. Swearingen'" <swear@attbi.com>; "'Doug Poland'"
<doug@polands.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: RE: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
Actually I am waiting on an auction to end. For some reason I never
thought of looking on ebay, and I hit the jackpot there... 64mb of
30pin
simms!
Where can I get more info on this picobsd though?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary W. Swearingen [mailto:swear@attbi.com]
>Sent: October 1, 2002 10:31 PM
>To: Doug Poland
>Cc: liquid@liquidonline.ca; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
>
>"Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> writes:
>
>> sshd, ipfw, and natd on a RoadRunner cable modem. My only problem
>> is the disk is so small I can't do an installworld to keep up with
>> -STABLE.
>
>Consider running picoBSD off a floppy with or without a hard disk
>(eg, for log files). It was quite easy/fast to get going and you
can
>easily keep it as current as the system you build it on (which is
>not the systemn you would run it on).
>
>
>I suspect that picoBSD would run on an 8 MB computer, but I don't
know.
>
>I hope the original poster has considered just finding an old
computer
>with 16 MB; I've bought them for 5 $US from local government
surplus.
The place to start is
<drum roll, please>
$man picobsd
NAME
picobsd - floppy disk based FreeBSD system
SYNOPSIS
picobsd [options] [floppy-type [site-name]]
DESCRIPTION
picobsd is a script which can be used to produce a minimal
implementation
of FreeBSD (historically called PicoBSD) which typically fits on
one
floppy disk, or can be downloaded as a single image file from
some media
such as CDROM, flash memory, or through etherboot.
<snip>
Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?013b01c269d4$451d5a50$22ec910c>