From owner-freebsd-small Fri Oct 20 5:45:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from nrpc-22.netrake.net (403217B2.ptr.dia.nextlink.net [64.50.23.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A8C37B4CF for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrake.com (localhost.netrake.net [127.0.0.1]) by nrpc-22.netrake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01246; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 07:43:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jimj@netrake.com) Message-ID: <39F03DE7.9C924DE6@netrake.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 07:43:19 -0500 From: Jim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Judd=90=90?= Organization: Netrake Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Reed Lai Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD References: <20001020110232.B14255@dan.icpdas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reed Lai wrote: > Seniors, > > I download PicoBSD 0.41 (Networking) and intend to use it as a > dedicated router+dial-in server on an old 486-100/16MB RAM/floppy > only panel PC. There are two problems bother me: > > 1. I cannot save the changes of the configuration of device > driver. For each boot, I must do it again. I tried to edit the > file kernel.conf in the boot disk immediately, but didn't work. > I cannot run kget because it always "file system full." > Any changes that you make to you /etc directory are on the memory file system and not the floppy. If you make changes make sure you mount the floppy and copy your /etc changes to the floppy /etc. Depending on what version of picobsd, the floppy /etc may be gziped. > > 2. May I configure my PicoBSD floppy to boot ahead and skip the > userconfig? > Sure, if you mount the floppy on another machine you can make the configuration changes to the floppy etc directory first and then boot from it on ur 486. jj > > Please help. Thanks! > Brgds > -- > Reed Lai http://w3.icpdas.com/reed/ | ICPDAS http://www.icpdas.com > GnuPG (DSA/ElGamal) 0x7199EAD3 Reed Lai (key #1) > KeyServer: search.keyserver.net | HAM: BV4QO | NIC-handle: RL7000 > ICQ 64518529 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message