From owner-freebsd-small Fri Nov 6 14:23:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12131 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12123 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.164]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4372; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:23:00 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:27:03 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Andrzej Bialecki Subject: Re: *BSD small effort Cc: picoBSD , Randy Devol Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Nov-98 Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Randy Devol wrote: > >> At 01:43 PM 11/6/98 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> >just wondering, do OpenBSD and NetBSD also have something akin to the >> >picoBSD >> >effort? >> >> Not to my knowledge. I would like to see one in the near future. I may >> put in some time to port the concepts/scripts/etc. to NetBSD. Then again, >> I may simply use the existing tools to create a small-ish NetBSD. That may >> be small enough. > > Better yet, don't port it but devise some other way to build the image so > that its components are easily changeable... This is IMO the biggest > disdavantage of picobsd for now. What can we do to make it modular? We need to devise an install thing that will allow for a choice of components and build a customised picoBSD. Also if we could define settings to which it has to fullfill that would be a major plus... Like: Memory footprint allowed: 4< MB 4 MB 5 MB etc... Allow me to poll NetBSD and OpenBSD on small set-ups --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message