Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:49:28 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embeded applications? Message-ID: <199805230031.OAA07761@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <199805222322.QAA03133@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 14:01:46 -1000." <199805222343.NAA07640@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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On 22 May 98 at 16:22, Mike Smith wrote: > Basically, you will need to tweak the part of the PicoBSD build process > where it generates a 1.44MB image, and have it generate an image that > contains a partition table. (See the stuff in the vnconfig manpage > about this.) Keep the image under 1.44MB, so that you can still put it on > a floppy. > > Then you can dump this on top of the flash disk using something like > rawrite. You may need to roll some custom utilities for this. I took a look at rawrite and it looks like it only works on floppies. I guess I need to make my own utility. Any ideas where to start? > A slightly easier solution would be to get a PC104 IDE adapter, and use > an old IDE disk to transfer stuff around. Actually the board has an IDE controller on it already. I guess I just need to get a spare IDE drive to shuffle around. But still how would I transfer the image? Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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