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Subject: Re: creating a freebsd boot floppy with kernel?
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> > 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.
>
> [...]
> 
> Take a look at the LiveCD project:  http://livecd.sourceforge.net
> [...]
> 
> Another good project to look at is: FreeSBIE http://www.freesbie.org.
> [...]

You should also look at this :
http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/

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