From owner-freebsd-small Fri Oct 20 1: 8:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36D737B4E5 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:08:16 -0700 (PDT) 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 e9K88Fn64656; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:08:15 -0600 (MDT) (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 CAA32122; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:08:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010200808.CAA32122@harmony.village.org> To: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: picobsd on cdrom Cc: Andrew Gordon , small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:40:55 BST." References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001019105640.00b17910@gid.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:08:14 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Bob Bishop writes: : 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. The minimal system, uncompressed w/o pico, that boots the standard rc files w/o errors to a read only file system is about 12MB. 16MB gives you the network applications that most people want. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message