From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 9 02:00:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA03704 for current-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 02:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA03671 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 02:00:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@korin.warman.org.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15609 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:02:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:02:18 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on one floppy... sure. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! During past few days I was fighting with my new machine, which forced me into make'ing release several times, in order to prepare custom installation floppy. Well, after a dozen of times I may say I got used to it, and then started thinking about preparing a one-floppy fully functional (well, almost :-) system. So, after a sleepless night I now have a floppy, which boots cut down GENERIC kernel (only the most popular drivers) and also contains ca. 60 utilities, among them ppp, ftp, telnet, ssh (I know, it's not BSD license, but I needed it :-), basic filesystem utilities (disklabel, newfs, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, mount_*), ee to edit config files, tar, gzip, route & ifconfig (to use ethernet interfaces) and quite a bunch of others. BTW, it runs multiuser, and you also have getty's on several vtys... There are some drawbacks to it, though: I was short of space to put passwd on it, so there are only predefined passwords. If you have any idea how to force login (i.e. libc) NOT to use hashed db files (which are monstruous - over 80kB), I'll be very thankful. I'd rather not use mfs, because it raises the memory footprint - this version would run quite well on machine with 5MB RAM. The second disadvantage is that kernel is kzip'ped and I cannot dset the changes from userconfig... pity :-( It seems useful anyway, doesn't it? If there's any interest in it, I can put it somewhere. As for now, the whole documentation and setup is Polish, but given some time and enough interest I can prepare also English one... Let me know, what you think. Maybe it's just stupid idea... Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.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. ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------