Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:27:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980418232450.24028A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199804181936.VAA10925@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > * 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.
As I said: it depends. E.g. PicoBSD doesn't use swap at all... So perhaps,
in case of X's, 8MB would be for swap and 16MB for the binaries.
>
> 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.
Yes, this way you could have even quite normal FreeBSD installation... but
you need to keep the right CD in drive all the time.
Andrzej Bialecki
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