From owner-freebsd-small Sat Apr 22 19: 5:34 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 DAD6637B71F for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA77958; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:05:16 -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 UAA28097; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:04:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004230204.UAA28097@harmony.village.org> To: "Edward W. Akeyson" Subject: Re: Iopener & PicoBSD ramblings Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:33:44 EDT." References: Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:04:29 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Edward W. Akeyson" writes: : tight)- should I move in the direction of hand assembling my own image file : without MFS, etc. as done in PicoBSD? If so, what should I be certain to : include besides kernel, boot loaders, /etc and any /bin or /sbin files I : need. Also, how can I test this image file before putting it on the iopener? : I would prefer not to open the thing, unless I absolutely have to, and I : want to make sure that the image will boot. I can upgrade from there. I've squeezed a useful embedded system into 12MB or so. : 4. I have read all the mailing lists and other documentation that I can : find, including the "HOWTO: flash disk image" or something like it from last : summer in freebsd-small, but it based on an earlier version of PicoBSD and : there seem to be some major differences to the current version (scripts vs. : makefile, etc.). Anyone else currently working on an image for the iopener? : I would like this to be a stepping-off point for me as I have several other : potential projects like this if this works out. I would be happy to share : notes with anyone else working on this or similar projects. You might want to look at http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep to see how I make the initial filesystem on my CF devices. BTW, do you have a new iopener, or an old, hackable one? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message