From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 6 09:51:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08257 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08234 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-138.camalott.com [208.229.74.138]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA32205; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:49:41 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06288; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:49:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:49:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807061649.LAA06288@detlev.UUCP> To: mike@smith.net.au CC: abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199807061550.IAA03457@antipodes.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Mon, 06 Jul 1998 08:50:24 -0700) Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199807061550.IAA03457@antipodes.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> What for? This could help get rid of fbsdboot.exe and related troubles - >> we could just directly start and run (and install!) on MSDOS partition. > Permissions would suck. Not to mention performance, lack of links (sym or hard!), etc, etc. I'm not saying it's not doable, or even desirable under a few circumstances, but it still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message