From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 16:16:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26883 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26832 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA19845; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:14:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: H Girard cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: embedded computer using freebsd In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.16.19980729081350.42efee64@pop3.interlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, H Girard wrote: > Sorry for the newbie question , could not find it in your faq or handbook. > > Is it possible to embed the os and a few applications in flash memory on a > pc containing some ram (say 8 meg) . Such a computer would be dedicated to > one task only and would require no hard disk or floppy ,keyboard , nor > display card . Only high speed serial io and ethernet port would be > needed. I imagine the flash memory containing the os and applications would > have to be put on a pci card . > > Can you give references if any commercial hardware is available and what > tools to use to embed only the essential parts of the os into flash . Contact freebsd-small@freebsd.org and/or subscribe to that list. They are a group of people doing the same as you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message