Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:56:25 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com> Cc: rls@mail.id.net, spork@super-g.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? Message-ID: <33C681D9.19A13460@whistle.com> References: <199707111711.KAA02961@chimp.juniper.net>
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Tony Li wrote: > > Yes, they are small, but even a 4MB card is plent to run routing services > off of. There are several FreeBSD distributions out there that are > "router floppies", where you fit everything you need onto a 1.4MB disk > (except for gated, which is our problem). So you'd be in heaven with 4MB. > > Well, you're better than I am. ;-) In trying to get kernel, gated, basic > Unix utilities, and remote access utilties (what, you wanna WALK to your > router?) into a single place, I came up a wee bit bigger. > > In any case the flash disks run up to 190MB or so. Enough for a > distribution, but not enough to have things vanilla. > > Tony Use 'crunch' like the boot floppy does. you can fit almost the whole of /bin, and /usr/bin in 4MB using that.
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