From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 19 22:26: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from sibptus.tomsk.ru (sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.111.92.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5537BAEF for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA67773; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:25:39 +0800 (KRAST) (envelope-from sudakov) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:25:39 +0800 From: Victor Sudakov To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Bill Bailer , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is PicoBSD really so bad? Message-ID: <20000720132539.A67690@sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <200007191440.QAA48398@info.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200007191440.QAA48398@info.iet.unipi.it>; from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 04:40:51PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 04:40:51PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I have had exactly the same experience, with the same downloaded dial > > version disk image. This is my first experience in trying to run any > > form of bsd, and I don't know what files I can afford to delete or > > alter. Anything I have tried "breaks" it and I have to start over with > > a new disk image. The disk certainly is full, and the update utility > > does not work. There is no working space for the editor either. I can > > manually configure dialer and ppp access for each boot, but can't save > > the configuration. Can't download anything because of no space to put > > it. It's a can of sardines. > > can you try to get the image from http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ This one is certainly better. However, the update script does not work either. If the floppy is mounted, it complains about "mount failed, device busy". If the floppy is not mounted, it says "eof unexpected, expecting 'fi'". I have enough technical knowledge to mount the image via vnconfig and edit the configs manually, but a casual user will be very disappointed. Look at the competing projects like Freesco (http://www.freesco.net), that is what I call client satisfaction :). > > there is the bridge version but probably it is based on a more recent > version of the code, and more aggressively packed so there are a few > spare bits on the disk. update might even work. > > cheers > luigi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/149@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message