From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 18 16:22: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.eznet.net (mail2-old.eznet.net [207.50.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1906437BC1A for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wbailer@eznet.net) Received: (qmail 12729 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2000 23:21:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shell1.eznet.net) (207.50.128.10) by vmail.eznet.net with SMTP; 18 Jul 2000 23:21:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 5360 invoked by uid 15956); 18 Jul 2000 23:21:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jul 2000 23:21:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Bailer To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is PicoBSD really so bad? In-Reply-To: <20000718225033.B13084_sibptus.tomsk.ru@ns.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Jul 2000, Victor Sudakov wrote: >On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:03:34PM +1000, andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: >> >> >> >> > I did not add anything to the floppy, nor did I modify it in any way >> > save the visual kernel config. If it is full, then it is shipped like >> > this. I only copied the downloaded image to the floppy and booted from >> > it. >> >> kget is the tool used to save your kernel configuration to disk. You may >> need to build your own with less stuff in the kernel to start with...I > >Well, I thought if an image is available for download, it should be a >working one. > >> havent used a recent picobsd disk though... > >It would be a good idea to try :) > > >-- >Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN >2:5005/149@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ I have had exactly the same experience, with the same downloaded dial version disk image. This is my first experience in trying to run any form of bsd, and I don't know what files I can afford to delete or alter. Anything I have tried "breaks" it and I have to start over with a new disk image. The disk certainly is full, and the update utility does not work. There is no working space for the editor either. I can manually configure dialer and ppp access for each boot, but can't save the configuration. Can't download anything because of no space to put it. It's a can of sardines. Does anybody know how to trim the size of the whole thing down even a little bit, using only the floppy booted installaion itself to do so? Another question: Does PicoBSD (dial version) support: partition and format a hard drive, and then read and write to it (that is, if I can get the thing working)? Bill Bailer wbailer@eznet.net, Rochester NY USA, tel:716-473-9556 Acoustics, piano technology, music theory, JSBach To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message