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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:06:02 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>, "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TinyBSD kit progress report 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000727030110.19536B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <200007250814.CAA17951@harmony.village.org>

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

 > For what it is worth, I've had excellent luck with a config file plus
 > a shell script on a freshly built world in creating bootable CF images
 > in the 13M-16M range.  It works really well.  It isn't 1 floppy,
 > doesn't do compression, etc.  A compressed image will likely fit on a
 > 4MB flash part.  I did things this way so that the parts would be
 > easily updatable in the field.  One drawback of this approach is that
 > I build directly onto the media I'm creating.
 > 
 > If there's interest, I can see if I can release this stuff.  It has
 > been very useful at Timing Solutions.

For what it's worth, I'd be most interested in this.  Yes please Warner.

Ian



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