From owner-freebsd-small Thu Oct 19 17:44:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD24537B4CF for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 300) id 219AD9B11; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:44:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4085D05; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:44:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:44:48 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: Bob Bishop Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd on cdrom In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001019105640.00b17910@gid.co.uk> 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 Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Bob Bishop wrote: > > In any case, the 1.44MB floppy is an endangered species. CDROM booting is > somewhat hit-and-miss, but compact flash and net boots are viable > alternatives in many applications and don't have the size restriction. If you don't have the size restriction, why do you want picobsd in the first place (as opposed to just booting a standard system from CD or net)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message