From owner-freebsd-small Fri Mar 2 5:41:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1561337B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 05:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@OutBounderInc.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA23388; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:41:27 -0500 (EST) To: Brennan Stehling Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd and alternatives References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 02 Mar 2001 08:41:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: Brennan Stehling's message of "Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:15:52 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:15:52 -0600 (CST), Brennan Stehling 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