From owner-freebsd-small Wed Sep 19 4:47:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (ns.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A0237B417 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ark.cris.net (ark.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA71736; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:47:08 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f8JBkbW45890; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:46:37 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:46:37 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Randall Hopper Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <20010919144637.A45222@ark.cris.net> References: <20010916193310.A26261@nc.rr.com> <20010918165759.A87390@phantom.cris.net> <20010918162310.A58036@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010918162310.A58036@nc.rr.com>; from aa8vb@nc.rr.com on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:23:10PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 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, I think problem is quite bigger. IPAQ is Strong-ARM, not ix86 based computer. But FreeBSD does not support ARM based machines for now :( Such project is going on, but it's at early stage now. On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:23:10PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote: > Alexey Zelkin: > |> What is the best way to get FreeBSD up and running on this box? > |> Is there a simple way to put a basic loader on the flash and then load > |> everything (kernel, MFS root, etc.) via the ethernet? > | > |Use PicoBSD. > > AFAICT, the problem with using PicoBSD is that it is based on 3.x which > doesn't support the Kawasaki USB ethernet card in the IPaq. So I think I > need to look at 4.x. > > Randall > > -- > Randall Hopper > aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message