Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:59:40 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... Message-ID: <24386.892940380@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:46 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980418220717.3473A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> I seem to have some crazy ideas from time to time... Here's one of them. Heh. Not so crazy. This was first proposed about 3 years ago for the same general purpose - how to create quick and easy FreeBSD demo systems (you could even have the complete "preinstalled image" available as a much larger file if the user just wanted to grab a "typical" FreeBSD system and try it). I think it was jealously concerning Linux's "UMSDOS" filesystem and its frequent use for exactly this purpose that first led people to think of it. :) It should theoretically be possible, nobody's simply bothered to work out the details. It would, for another thing, be very slow (as Linux's UMSDOS is) and I think that's sort of dampened people's enthusiasm for the idea in the past, but if you're keen to try it I still think there'd be legitimate interest in it. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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