From owner-freebsd-small Wed Aug 5 16:49:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17916 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (comtest.hits.net [206.127.244.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17911 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA04396; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:48:45 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Message-Id: <199808052348.NAA04396@oldyeller.comtest.com> From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: Mike Smith , Andrzej Bialecki , dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:53:14 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! Reply-to: randal@comtest.com In-reply-to: <199808052324.QAA01650@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000." <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 Aug 98, at 16:24, Mike Smith wrote: > > BTW, I also have noticed something odd. When booting from floppy with a > > write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just > > mounting the floppy. Why is that? Does mounting the floppy cause a > > write to it? This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk. > > This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive. > > Mount the filesystem readonly (-o ro). I guess I could try this. Is this the same as the -r option? > > I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard > > FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD. > > If you're mounting as the root filesystem, it's likely that stuff in > /dev/ is having its atime/mtime updated. AFAIK, it is just mounting the floppy /etc and copying the files over to the mfs /etc. This is part of the rc script that is on the PicoBSD mfs kernel. echo "Reading /etc from startup floppy..." mount /dev/fd0c /start_floppy echo "debug - copying files over" cd /start_floppy/etc cp -r . /etc/ The error occurs right after the mount command. Does anything look suspicious? I will try changing the line to: mount -r /dev/fd0c /start_floppy Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message