Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:05:48 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "nanobsd" prototype Message-ID: <20040311130548.B95777@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040311204212.040a8230@imap.sfu.ca>; from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk on Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:44:28PM %2B0000 References: <53045.1079035854@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403111213470.87340-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403111213470.87340-100000@InterJet.elischer .org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040311204212.040a8230@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:44:28PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > At 20:19 11/03/2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > >On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > As I understand it picoBSD has never managed the 4.x->5.x transition > > > and is scheduled to be removed if nobody starts paying attention > > > to it soon. > > > >I may be looking at it soon as it still produces a smaller system than > >'nanoBSD' and works well for systems with old 8MB flash. > > Just a general reminder about building small images: NetBSD's makefs > (available as ports/sysutils/makefs) creates disk images a few % smaller > than those built via memory disks. this is actually a very interesting one because vnconfig/mdconfig was the last part of the picobsd that required root privileges. thanks for the pointer! luigi
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