From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jun 13 7:35: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from jake.akitanet.co.uk (jake.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6E937B40B for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@akita.co.uk) Received: from dsl-212-135-208-194.dsl.easynet.co.uk ([212.135.208.194] helo=foo.akitanet.co.uk) by jake.akitanet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #3) id 15ABjM-0009dk-00 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:34:48 +0100 Received: from paul by foo.akitanet.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 15ABiv-0003Mb-00 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:34:21 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:34:21 +0100 From: Paul Robinson To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: A mildly strange use for PicoBSD Message-ID: <20010613153420.G12137@akita.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i X-Scanner: exiscan *15ABjM-0009dk-00*$AK$yypTaTkQxz1A7gsmmYIrG0* Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Been looking at PicoBSD for a short while, and we are considering it for an application we have. However, it's slightly strange in that we want to install it onto a hard disk drive rather than a floppy. Ideally, all I need is a CD ISO-image that once run will fdisk, disklabel and newfs a hard disk in the machine we are running from, before copying over a very minimal install. We want to use PicoBSD as we want it VERY minimal. Apart from the kernel, the only other things we really need on there are mgetty, sox and a custom application that is an in-house product. A few other luxuries like cp and ls might be included as well. ;-) Anyway, what I suppose I'm really looking for is resources for producing a custom installation disk for Pico - I notice that with 4.3-RELEASE there is install/ directory that I intend taking a look at, but does anybody know any good guides for me to take a look at? The FreeBSD 'make world' approach seems rather overkill for what I have in mind. -- Paul Robinson - Technical Director .---------------------------------------- PO Box 604, Manchester, M60 3PR | A computer lets you make more mistakes T: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 (F: 6389) | than any other invention, with the http://www.akita.co.uk | possible exceptions of handguns and paul@akita.co.uk | Tequila -- Mitch Ratcliffe `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message