From owner-freebsd-small Mon Feb 8 13:33:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06227 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06215 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:33:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02715; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:40:29 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:40:29 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mark VandeWettering cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breathing New life into an Laptop In-Reply-To: <9902081045.ZM801040@omnipotus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Mark VandeWettering wrote: > A couple of things I'd like to fix though: > > a) Booting from floppy. While I don't have hoards of disk space, I wouldn't mind > dedicating the necessary space for picobsd to be loaded from disk, which would > be oodles faster. I know long ago there used to be fbsdboot.exe, but I couldn't > locate that anymore, and was unsure how it would work with the ELF kernel in anycase. Yep. I recently received an LS-120 floppy - I'll do some work on it, and I'll try to adjust the upcoming PicoBSD 0.50 to be able to use media of varying sizes... > b) Once we are booting from hard drive, it makes some sense to expand the distribution with > some other tools since we aren't as tightly limited on space. I'd kind of like to have > vi, and a couple of unix tools like grep. I kind of envisioned these living inside an > msdos file, and using the vnode stuff to create a filesystem for it. That would enable > you to make a fairly competent system. You might imagine it possible (although on my > machine it might be pushing it) to create a nice x-terminal using approach. > > Thanks in advance.. Yes, this is of course possible, and even sometimes desirable. As you say: > A couple of things I'd like to fix though: Patches are more than welcome! :-) Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message