Date: 02 Mar 2001 08:41:27 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> To: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd and alternatives Message-ID: <lf8zmo70fs.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: Brennan Stehling's message of "Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:15:52 -0600 (CST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103011910100.16949-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:15:52 -0600 (CST), Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> said: Brennan> I also browsed the archives and contacted two people who had Brennan> interest in creating a CD version... If I am able to figure Brennan> a way to simply burn a working copy of FreeBSD from disk to Brennan> CD and make it bootable I will do that. First I suppose I Brennan> could make it work with simply a hard-drive and a floppy Brennan> holding all config files. The filesystem can be set to read Brennan> only on the disk drive to simulate a CD. You might want to take a look at what the people at www.ThinkNIC.com have done. They sell a $200 box that boots/runs Linux (sorry) off CD. I haven't gotten one myself, yet, but the price is good and the ability to boot simply is very appealing -- an appliance. I'm planning on getting a couple and net-booting FreeBSD from my main box, so I have access to all the SW I've built already, and to all my files: the simplicity of an Xterm but with decent local processing power (P233 equiv + 64MB RAM, audio, USB, ...) Anyway, not trying to push the NIC _per se_ but I think a lot of what they've done are similar to what you want. There are a couple discussion groups on yahoogroups/egroups, one of them is for technical matters like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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