From owner-freebsd-small Fri May 22 17:40:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28858 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (comtest.hits.net [206.127.244.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28714 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:39:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07761; Fri, 22 May 1998 14:31:04 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Message-Id: <199805230031.OAA07761@oldyeller.comtest.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: Mike Smith Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:49:28 -1000 Subject: Re: Embeded applications? Reply-to: randal@comtest.com CC: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG 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> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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