From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jun 28 18:46:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from dreamwvr.com (24.66.207.153.ab.wave.home.com [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFED37C2E1 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com) Received: from tyr.dreamwvr.com (unknown [192.168.26.101]) by dreamwvr.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AF7A43483; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:46:29 -0600 (MDT) From: dreamwvr To: shansen@earthlink.net, "Skip Hansen" , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:03:21 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost> <395A36D8.1083.25BC7A5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <395A36D8.1083.25BC7A5@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0006282010521C.00531@tyr.dreamwvr.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I wasted a Saturday trying to get fireplug to boot. I eventually succeeded by > recompiling the kernel without the floating point emulator which reduced the > size just enough to avoid cylinder 83. use LRP if doing Linux its far better;-)) better docs as well.. speaking of docs;-)) > I'm sure it's true that "most" drives support the format, but with my luck > 100% of the two drives (one brand new) I tried didn't. i can relate i do recall doing a lot of swearing before getting the picture and lots of smoking floppies IYKWIM;-)) > All of my experience with PicoBSD has been with the version that came with > FreeBSD 3.2, in those days it fit easily. > I couldn't agree more with building a boot disk on a CDrom ... that's the > ticket. 3 ways really seem practical and yet fit the minimalistic approach. 1 - RW CDROM which i might buy just to be part of this.. 2 - Zip drive 3 - LS120 Oh yeah and superformatted floppies ;-)) Well lets do it! i always wanted to get this working properly and well got it working ok but since i did not get the answers to stick around i bailed. we need good install docs that answer the basic install step by step including creating the disk ..etc . good idea is to learn to modulate it IMHO. Best Regards, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com > Skip > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: Scientists have announced discovering a meteorite which will strike the earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for being spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. _______________________________________________________________________ ************** DREAMWVR.COM - TOTAL INTERNET SERVICES **************** TOTAL DESIGN - DEVELOPMENT - INTEGRATION - SECURITY - Click Here.. ; DREAMWVR.COM - The Console of Many... 90 Topics Covered ; ; ->> LINUX-MANDRAKE Solution Provider and North American Distributor<<- PRODUCT OF THE YEAR! ; "===0 PGP Key Available *************** "As Unique as the Company You Keep."***************** "If anyone speaks from DREAMWVR.COM its certainly not me:-)" ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message