From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 18 14:17:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01464 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01459 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:17:09 GMT (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id VAA10925; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:36:56 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199804181936.VAA10925@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:36:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Apr 18, 98 10:35:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi! > > I seem to have some crazy ideas from time to time... Here's one of them. > > I propose to add another type of installation combined with a special > distribution set. The idea behind it is to let people who are completely > new to FreeBSD just try the system without really installing it (which i was thinking about the same thing, since recently tried something similar with diskless, and MFS filesystem backed on a DOS partition is reasonably fast now, and long name support (I used Luqi Chen patches with 2.2.5 and 2.2.6) is also working. > Here's what the setup would be like: > > * the whole installation (available in sysinstall :-) would place FreeBSD > on an existing DOS partition. Installation program would create the file > with filesystem on it (which will then be mounted on a vn(4) device). This > will require (well, it depends) ca. 16-24MB of free space on a DOS > partition. you'd need this much space just for the swapfile. I was thinking of a slightly different approach, where you mount all the binaries from a CD (with the 16X CDs available nowadays, speed is not as terrible as it was with 2X drives), and the DOS file is very small, containing only (a portion of) the root partition with kernel, /sbi, /etc, /var... . Home directories can go into the DOS partition, so they can be shared with DOS. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message