From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 3 3:21:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B0D14E03 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 03:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id MAA07980; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:20:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id MAA82384; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:37:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990803123741.01240@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:37:41 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld To: Francisco Reyes Cc: David Scheidt , Terry Lambert , "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: BSD lightness: Free/Net/Open References: <199908030100.VAA29833@arutam.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199908030100.VAA29833@arutam.inch.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:01:19PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Francisco Reyes writes: > > What is netboot.exe? /sys/boot/netboot Read the docs -- it's a small binary whicch you run from DOS -- or you can flash it into an EEPROM to put into that socket on your NIC that you always wondered about. We currently have support for 10Mbps NICs, but maybe 100Mbps are supported now (Luigi Rizzo might know about this). Anyway: the program, compiled according to your NIC, will run BOOTP, get an address, and TFTP a kernel. The rest is downhill. > What part of the kernel did you "strip out"? Probably UFS, wd*, fd*, sio, lp*, etc... (though you could use a pipe/tunnel and run floppy, sound, parallel, serial locally). You use NFS to mount your root FS, and start an X server from there. The handbook has some stuff, there's also some examples in /usr/share. > Wouldn't a custom kernel do the job or are there savings to be made > from taking certain things out? It depends what you call stripping -- knowing (in a way) Terry, he did more than just make a custom -- you need to hack to run with 4 MB. But 8 MB and Custom kernel will do fine. > I would be hesitant to even try taking things out of the kernel.. Don't, it's fun: you can rip out VM for example :-) -- Divizion by Zero error -- multiplying by zero to recover. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message