From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 12:12:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4311616A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1501B43D1F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004060319123301300lape6e>; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:12:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA67789; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:12:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Matteo Riondato In-Reply-To: <1086269680.17568.10.camel@rionda.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: creating a freebsd boot floppy with kernel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:12:44 -0000 On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Matteo Riondato wrote: > Il Gio, 2004-06-03 alle 06:05, Craig Rodrigues ha scritto: > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:56:56PM -0600, darren@chatcanada.net wrote: > > > 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. you could still make picoBSD floppies as of 4.8 as long as you were VERY carefull.. you need >= 8MB of ram though. > > > > > Another good project to look at is: FreeSBIE http://www.freesbie.org. > > They have a nice distribution which boots off of CD, and > > even has X11 and networking enabled. > > FreeSBIE gives you the opportunity to build a customized FreeBSD live > cd, with your own package set, thanks to the sh scripts that are the > main part of the FreeSBIE Project. > For the near future, FreeSBIE staff plans to release a new FreeSBIE ISO > every time a FreeBSD Release comes out. > Best Regards > > -- > Rionda aka Matteo Riondato > GUFI Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org) > BSD-FAQ-it Main Developer (http://www.gufi.org/~rionda) > FreeSBIE BugMeister (http://www.freesbie.org) > GPG key at: http://www.riondabsd.net/riondagpg.asc > Sent from: kaiser.sig11.org running FreeBSD-5.2-CURRENT >