Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:12:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: creating a freebsd boot floppy with kernel? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406031211230.51122-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <1086269680.17568.10.camel@rionda.dyndns.org>
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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 >
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