From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 17:01:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DAE10656C8 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:01:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B958FC1D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:01:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LaCGj-0001Vi-Ec for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:01:01 +0000 Received: from mta-mad.optenet.com ([213.27.232.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:01:01 +0000 Received: from matiassurdi by mta-mad.optenet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:01:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matias Surdi Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:00:52 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <499D67B6.60309@datapipe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mta-mad.optenet.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: <499D67B6.60309@datapipe.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: NanoBSD :: smallest image size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:01:05 -0000 Anybody knows if NanoBSD can be installed on a hard disk and use it to store data, logs, etc? for example, for a tiny mail server? Paul Procacci wrote: > Hello list, > > I have an old machine I just acquired that I was thinking of replacing > my current FreeBSD firewall/router with. It's a Celeron 500+ Mhz > machine with 32 Megs of ram, and a 10G hard drive. I am(was) initially > thinking about taking out the 10G, and using the flobby disk drive to > boot off of. I was familiar with PicoBSD years ago and know I could use > that, but it seems that project has been discontinued. After looking > through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that > seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this > question. I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image > size possible using NanoBSD. So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the > proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an > old computer bootable off of a usb stick? How can I tell without buying > one? > > Thanks, > ~Paul > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >