From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 26 10: 6:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3219137BD1C for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.0) with SMTP id DAA20985; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:06:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:06:02 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Warner Losh Cc: W Gerald Hicks , "Jeffrey S. Sharp" , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TinyBSD kit progress report In-Reply-To: <200007250814.CAA17951@harmony.village.org> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message