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Subject: Re: tinybsd qemu small howto
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> The wiki page is a good enough text as an initial mini-guide for
> tinybsd, but I think we can arrange it a bit, expand parts of it,
> and describe a few more tricks.
> 
> What I had originally in mind was working with you towards what an
> article would include, i.e.:
> 
> 	- Introduction
> 
> 		- What is TinyBSD
> 		- Features of TinyBSD
> 
> 	- How to obtain TinyBSD
> 
> 	- Creating TinyBSD images
> 
> 		- Building the base TinyBSD system
> 
> 		- Post-build configuration of TinyBSD
> 
> 		- Bundling ports & packages in TinyBSD images
> 
> 	- Testing TinyBSD images
> 
> 	- Updating TinyBSD images
> 
> This sort of article would probably need a bit or re-arranging of the
> original Wiki text, but it seems like something very interesting for
> potential users of TinyBSD.
> 
> Does the table-of-contents mock up shown above look ok?  Would you add
> more sections/parts to it?

One of the more powerful things on the wiki page is the link to qemu; so 
I would expand on that - i.e add an example efficient debug loop into 
there; or in fact walkign the user through a 'make' , 'test' and 'fix' 
and re-test cycle.

Dw