From owner-freebsd-small Thu May 3 10:32:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABABB37B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:32:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust15.tnt1.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.88.15]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26287; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA00388; Thu, 3 May 2001 13:31:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105031731.NAA00388@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU In-Reply-To: <200105031541.f43Ff5l38811@billy-club.village.org> from Warner Losh at "May 3, 2001 09:41:05 am" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Operating System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a Laptop that does not have a hot swappable HD. I could take it apart and see if it has an IDE drive in it or maybe get the info off of dmesg's output as it scrolls by. I know I can get to a shell with the NetBSD version 1.4 install floppy. I suppose I can run dmesg from there and get the info about drive type. Thanks to Bruce, Greg, Bob, Warner, and anybody else who responds. I think I'll hack around with the previously mentioned Pico scripts and see if I can't get some results. I'll post the success story(hopefully) when I'm through. Thanks for clearing up the confusion about sysinstall. I thought the Pico script ran it after it booted up the system. Ian As told by, Warner Losh > In message <200105031331.JAA00559@scarlet.my.domain> User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas writes: > : Is there a way to install without sysinstall. In netbsd I can drop into > : a shell and run fdisk, swapctl, and then disklabel to get the disk set up > : with partitions and swap space to take some of the load off of the small > : memory. If I compiled a small kernel on my workstation using only the > : components in the laptop and getting rid of everything but the bare > : essentials I believe I could but this small kernel on a floppy and maybe do > : it that way(there was a thread on this in questions referring to an article > : at FreeBSDDiary, I'll have to check it out). Of course all of this depends > : on whether I can install sans sysinstall. Has anyone done an install without > : it? This would be like doing FreeBSD from scratch(sounds like a good learning > : experience). > > I routinely do the following: > pull the disk from the system I want FreeBSD to run in. > put it in a desktop > fdisk/disklabel it > mount it (/new) > cd /usr/src > make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy DESTDIR=/new > cd etc > make distribution DESTDIR=/new > cd .. > make installworld DESTDIR=/new > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message