From owner-freebsd-small Sat Dec 19 13:47:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22443 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22431 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02763 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 22:54:10 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 22:54:10 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BootFORTH demo floppy. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Some people asked me to prepare a demo floppy for the new, 3-stage bootloader that comes with FreeBSD. Without too much exagerration you could call it a Forth equipped OS. Some of its features include: * runs in protected mode * is able to call BIOS services * read-only support for *BSD UFS, ISO9660 and DOS filesystems, as well as virtual filesystems: zipfs (working), tftpfs, nfs (under development) * Forth compiler/interpreter (based on FICL) * ability to load/unload/execute a.out and ELF kernels and kernel modules * ability to scan system buses and devices * support for normal as well as serial console So, here's an early Christmas gift for you: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/bootldr.bin This is a floppy image which you should dd onto the floppy, and boot from it. The kernel provided on the floppy is standard PicoBSD "dial" version, so it's not only a demo - you can do some real things with it as well. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message