Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 14:48:42 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Andy Tien <Andy.Tien@sinodynamics.com.tw> Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smallest kernel Message-ID: <3EB9FDCA.8D314C35@kuzbass.ru> References: <001001c3150d$a63d4fe0$0300a8c0@sinodynamics.com.tw>
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Andy Tien wrote: > > Hi folks, > Every one know way to make the smallest kernel which can fit into a 1.44M floppy diskette? > I recently make the image into a ISO image burn into a CD-R, but the old PC can not boot from a CD-ROM, so I will go back using the floppy diskette to boot. I try to reduce many options but the image still bigger than 1.44M , other capacity like 1.48M or 1.72M can not boot or diskette failure regularly. You should use PicoBSD to boot from floppy. It will compress a kernel and boot it afterwards. See /usr/src/release/picobsd. Eugene
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