From owner-freebsd-small Fri Oct 20 1: 6:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933F337B4CF for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id JAA41750; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:06:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] (eccles [194.32.164.2]) by seagoon.gid.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA33701; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:40:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001019105640.00b17910@gid.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:40:55 +0100 To: Andrew Gordon From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: picobsd on cdrom Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, At 01:44 +0100 20/10/00, Andrew Gordon wrote: >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)? That wasn't "no size restriction", that was "the size restriction of a floppy". Compact flash for instance is economic in sizes of a few tens of MB. There are many applications where you simply don't need a full system or the storage required to hold it, and systems without rotating storage can be a lot more reliable. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message