From owner-freebsd-small Thu Nov 16 11: 7: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7030637B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:06:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAGJ6sQ01439; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:06:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA67585; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:06:53 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011161906.MAA67585@harmony.village.org> To: Tim Tsai Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CF cards Cc: Pico BSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:01:43 CST." <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> References: <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:06:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> Tim Tsai writes: : I have a system with a 32MB CF card (FreeBSD sees it as a small ATA device) : and am wondering if somebody has already done some work on putting a small : live filesystem on it (vs. the PicoBSD approach which is to compress : everything and load from RAM). The card is too small for me to do a : minimal installation but seems to be big enough where I don't need to use : the MFS approach and eat up RAM. I'd prefer to just have FreeBSD boot : from a live filesystem on the CF directly. We do this all the time at Timing Solutions. I have a subsetting script that will put our "base" system down on the CF and it takes up about 8MB of that. Some utilities could be axed and get the total down to about 6-7M. X is another 8M if you want the things that we want. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message