From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 19 12:30:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23837 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23813 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:30:05 GMT (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA16068 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:33:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:33:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MiniBSD (or whatever we'd call it...) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Well, I must admit I'm surprised by so many (positive) comments... Perhaps they are related to recent discussions on PR :-)) because such version could make excellent demo system (IFF correctly prepared). It's a toy, after all - for any serious purpose people should use normal installation. But I feel encouraged, and (when time permits) I'll try to prepare something like this. And now some comments to the comments :-) : * Concerning the use of normal MSDOSFS (as opposite to one file mounted on vn): MSDOSFS lacks ownership and permissions. Unless some friendly FS hacker writes something like UMSDOS, I'd incline to use a file with FFS on a vn driver. * the idea with using Windows swap file is fine, but this file doesn't exist on some machines (e.g. on mine). But this can be easily remedied... * this needs testing (obviously), but I suspect there is a combination of VM sysctls (which John Dyson mentioned) which would allow for running Netscape in reasonably reduced memory/swap space. Of course, one of my goals here is to assure users they can start that many processes (like Netscape) without fear of crashing. This surely needs testing. * "slowness" of such solution (in terms of slow FFS->vn->DOS) is not so important - I don't expect people to use it as a server :-) - it's just a demo (though fully working). * If that was unclear, I repeat: I'm thinking about the _distribution_set_, i.e. something containing all the pieces prepackaged and checked to work as expected. Which is sometimes not true with normal installation and later added packages... Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message