From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jan 20 6:56: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8AF14F14 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (m15.chn.vsnl.net.in [202.54.43.218] (may be forged)) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05987; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:25:41 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00643; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:35:26 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:35:26 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposed picobsd changes... Message-ID: <20000120173526.E533@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200001191845.TAA07055@info.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001191845.TAA07055@info.iet.unipi.it>; from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it on Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 07:45:59PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 19 January 2000 at 19:45:59 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > I have a set of changes to picobsd scripts etc which i will > hopefully commit in the next days. > > See http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pico.000119.patch > for a detailed patch (which is not very long): > > The main changes are as follows: > > + remove the forth/ stuff, and greatly simplify the loader > scripts as Greg Lehey did for 4.0. This saves quite a bit of > room from the floppy image. > > + a small change to rc scripts etc so you can copy things to > a hard disk or so and enjoy the higher boot speed. > > + make the "build" script look for configuration parameters > (e.g. floppy sizes etc) in ../*/PICOBSD i.e. the kernel > config file. This makes it simpler to add new floppy types > without having to play with 'custom' directory, and removes > parameters from the build script. > > The kernel config file is not the best place to do this but > i wanted to avoid having even more config files around. If > someone can suggest a better place I will be happy to follow > good suggestions. > > Please have a look at the diffs and see if you like them. I won't have time to look at the changes, but they sound good. How does this match the feature freeze? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message