From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 19:18:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD88116A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from cruzio.com (dsl3-63-249-85-132.cruzio.com [63.249.85.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B293143D41 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from mail.cruzio.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i165GiSA000209 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by mail.cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i165GiIA000208 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:16:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200402060516.i165GiIA000208@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PicoBSD diskless embedded 'where to start' X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 03:18:11 -0000 I just built a picobsd "bridge" configuration on a 4.9-Stable system, and it seems to boot and run fine. I commented out all the "sshd" references in "crunch.conf" as this configuration appears to expect that the picobsd sshd port has previously been built. The entire build took about a minute. It was almost faster than the time taken to write the floppy image to the floppy. The compressed kernel, containing everything, on the floppy was about 1.2 Mbytes. The same uncompressed kernel was around 3.7 Mbytes. If you need to make your own picobsd, this may be one way to start. It may be more helpful to consider picobsd a kernel build wrapper tool than a specific "system". I used to routinely keep 2 picobsd systems on M-Systems 8 Mbyte Disk-On-Chip flash devices, maybe they don't make them anymore. Looks like this could still be done, just barely. - bruce