From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 5 1:34:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E7237B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B12543E65 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.3/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id DAA74233 for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:34:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200208050834.DAA74233@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: Single floppy x-terminal with freebsd? To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:34:04 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'll note that PicoBSD was apparently inspired by the single-disk Xterminal stuff I did. There's no way I found to put the server itself on the floppy, I just boot a kernel and MFS from floppy, and then NFS mount a minimal Xterminal filesystem. Been using it for many years very happily. -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message