From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 20:54:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B0C16A4CF for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chatcanada.net (d199-126-144-193.abhsia.telus.net [199.126.144.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EDCA43D5E for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:54:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darren@chatcanada.net) Received: (qmail 92961 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2004 03:56:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.chatcanada.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jun 2004 03:56:56 -0000 Received: from 192.168.0.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user darren) by mail.chatcanada.net with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:56:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <49837.192.168.0.2.1086235016.squirrel@mail.chatcanada.net> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:56:56 -0600 (MDT) From: darren@chatcanada.net To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: creating a freebsd boot floppy with kernel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:54:33 -0000 If I want to create a small bsd, rather a boot floppy with very limited software as I won't be needing much...(one program and harddrive access) how should I go about it.. I tried compiling a custom kernel and the smalest I seem to have been able to make is 2mb. I want to try the floppies but I could possibly move to cd's.