Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 15:02:36 +0800 From: "Andy Tien" <Andy.Tien@sinodynamics.com.tw> To: "Eugene Grosbein" <eugen@kuzbass.ru> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Smallest kernel Message-ID: <001601c3152f$cf71e520$0300a8c0@sinodynamics.com.tw> References: <001001c3150d$a63d4fe0$0300a8c0@sinodynamics.com.tw> <3EB9FDCA.8D314C35@kuzbass.ru>
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I have enjoy the picoBSD for a while, but in FreeBSD 5.0 beside bridge mode , I never succeed compile a image can fit into a 1.44M floppy diskette. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene Grosbein" <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: "Andy Tien" <Andy.Tien@sinodynamics.com.tw> Cc: <small@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Re: Smallest kernel > Andy Tien wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > Every one know way to make the smallest kernel which can fit into a 1.44M floppy diskette? > > I recently make the image into a ISO image burn into a CD-R, but the old PC can not boot from a CD-ROM, so I will go back using the floppy diskette to boot. I try to reduce many options but the image still bigger than 1.44M , other capacity like 1.48M or 1.72M can not boot or diskette failure regularly. > > You should use PicoBSD to boot from floppy. > It will compress a kernel and boot it afterwards. > > See /usr/src/release/picobsd. > > Eugene >
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