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Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini...
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980418220717.3473A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at "Apr 18, 98 10:35:46 pm"
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Andrzej Bialecki once stated:

=* 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.

Two notes. One, keep the files separately on the C:\FreeBSD , not
a monolitic image with UFS in it, which only FreeBSD can read/modify.
This will probably be faster you'll have

	kernel -> dosfs
instead of
	kernel -> ufs -> vn -> dosfs

and eaither to explore from other the FreeBSD.

Another note -- do not forget the Windoze swap file(s).
pagefile.sys for NT/95 and (what's its name) on 3.1 .

I use the as additional swap now on my dual boot machine --
works fine.

=* the most important requirement of this set would be that each element
=work as expected with almost no setup on user's part (except
=network/dialup setup, which can be done with user-friendly script). 

Yep, this must be true for the real FreeBSD users too!

=* the whole thing would be started from DOS (using fbsdboot.exe). This
=will probably require special C:\kernel with small MFS, containing
=init(8), mount, vnconfig etc.. which after booting would first mount the
=DOS partition, and then vnconfig the previously created file with OS on
=it, and mount it on /.

	-mi

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