From owner-freebsd-small Thu Nov 16 12:16:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15BA37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:16:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAGKGCQ01859; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:16:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA68486; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:16:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011162016.NAA68486@harmony.village.org> To: Juha-Matti Liukkonen Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CF cards Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:05:21 +0200." <3A143E01.BC3937F9@cubical.fi> References: <3A143E01.BC3937F9@cubical.fi> <20001116131024.A27971@futuresouth.com> <20001116130143.A26780@futuresouth.com> <200011161906.MAA67585@harmony.village.org> <20001116131024.A27971@futuresouth.com> <200011161923.MAA67766@harmony.village.org> <20001116195302.P98945@pavilion.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:16:12 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3A143E01.BC3937F9@cubical.fi> Juha-Matti Liukkonen writes: : we are using a minimal footprint system from 8-16M flash devices, and : use a modified picobsd build to generate a crunch-based filesystem. : Basically, the build is aborted when the picobsd ramdisk image has been : populated, and we write the image directly on to the flash disk. Works : nicely, and you can get a pretty fully functional system in 4 megs. The 8M image that I put on CF cards here will compress down to about 3.5M (judging from tar cf - /mnt | gzip -9 | wc). I'm not at all surprised that you can get a lot on the 4M parts, since the subset taht we use is interesting. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message