From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 16:57:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C95537C095 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08987; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:53:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:53:00 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Dylan Fermoyle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enquiry In-Reply-To: <000501bf7c03$7f2d8920$5ba1a5c2@default> 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 Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dylan Fermoyle wrote: > Hello there, > I am trying to learn about bsd and have got a shell > on my friends box, > I currently connect using telnet from windows to his > computer. He recently told > me that if i didnt want to install bsd on my pc I could > download something from www.freebsd.org > that would allow me to boot bsd from a floppy disk at > startup and that I would then be able to connect to his box > using the telnet command. I have searched your site for this > version of bsd and havent been able to find it... > could you please tell me if this exists and if so the > address I need to download it from? > Thank you very much , > Dylan. What you want is PicoBSD, which is a tiny implementation of FreeBSD designed to be run from small (sometimes embedded) systems. More information can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message