From owner-freebsd-small Wed Dec 15 11:29: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9283C1558A for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p22-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.151]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id EAA26269; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:28:49 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3857E1C4.B0CCCD06@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 03:45:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some picobsd things References: <199912151806.TAA04201@info.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > while trying to revise picobsd configuration etc, i notice a > fair amount of space on the boot floppy is eaten by: > 1) the loader configuration files in /boot > > For #1, it appears that we can save gzipped versions of these files > on the floppy, and the loader is happy to read them without any problem > so i would suggest for post-3.4R the above change to the "stage1" script. > This saves some 15-20KB i think It seems picobsd is using rather fancy scripts with loader. I don't think we need them any more than we need rc/rc.conf. Take a look at loader.rc that Greg is using with his new PicoBSD build. It's a streamed down version that has just what you need (assuming you don't need to configure kernel/save settings). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message