From owner-freebsd-small Wed Aug 5 15:19:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04226 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:19:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (comtest.hits.net [206.127.244.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04217 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA04115; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:18:55 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Message-Id: <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com> From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: Andrzej Bialecki , dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! Reply-to: randal@comtest.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 Aug 98, at 9:12, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm almost finished with preparing the new release of PicoBSD, and I'll > let you know when it's available for download... this is only to let you > know what are some exciting new features :-) I'm very anxious to try out the new version. When could we expect it? I just got some new 10MB IDE Flash modules today! I will be testing them on a PC/104 386 card w/8MB RAM. I will test booting and updating config files from IDE Flash. Can you make a version that does not use compression on the kernel? (since I have such a large IDE Flash size) One reason I'm want to try this method is because it is very slow to decompress the kernel on a 386. I would like it to boot much faster. BTW, I also have noticed something odd. When booting from floppy with a write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just mounting the floppy. Why is that? Does mounting the floppy cause a write to it? This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk. This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive. I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD. Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message