Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:56:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808060752170.19334-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Randal S. Masutani wrote:
> On 5 Aug 98, at 9:12, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm almost finished with preparing the new release of PicoBSD, and I'll
> > let you know when it's available for download... this is only to let you
> > know what are some exciting new features :-)
>
> I'm very anxious to try out the new version.
> When could we expect it?
Next week.
> I just got some new 10MB IDE Flash modules today! I will be testing them
> on a PC/104 386 card w/8MB RAM. I will test booting and updating config
> files from IDE Flash. Can you make a version that does not use
> compression on the kernel? (since I have such a large IDE Flash size)
I'll think about it. I'm not saying "no", but most people use the
compressed version which can fit onto a floppy... and you can easily do
that version yourself :-)
> 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.
Yes, this was configuration error, and it is corrected in the new version.
Andrzej Bialecki
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