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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/bridge PICOBSD src/release/picobsd/dial
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> On 2001-Jun-21 01:56:59 -0700, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >  (This is kind of inconvenient if you have to handle non PnP devices,
> >  but fortunately these days non-PnP ISA cards are disappearing...)
> 
> Except that one of the claims made about PicoBSD is that it's a good
> way of turning an obsolete box into a router/firewall/whatever.  It's
> likely that the obsolete box has obsolete (non-PnP) cards and may
> even have a pre-PnP BIOS.

For those boxes you can always 1) recompile the picobsd kernel with the
right parameters, or 2) use an obsolete version of FreeBSD which
has less code bloat and has room for the loader (or supports loading
userconfig commands from a file) so you can use the same floppy
image for all sort of junk you find in your office/lab/garage.

	luigi

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