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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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Subject: Re: last known 4-.x-RELEASE where PicoBSD can be built
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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:42, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:06:45AM +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to build PicoBSD using sources from RELENG_4 on a
> > 4.10-RELEASE-p5 system and it failed. I (think|know) it's working
> > again on RELENG_6, but I want to use 4.x branch. So, which
> > sources should I get to build it?
>
> if you take the script that i recently committed to -current
> and -stable (/usr/src/release/picobsd/build/picobsd)
> it should work also with 4.x sources
>
> it relies on ports/sysutils/makefs to build
> the file system image without the need for
> root permissions
>
> one thing you might have to do is increase the fd_size
> to 2880 (in the imagename/config file) due to
> increased code size

I still have problems(might as well be the lack of experience though).
I will try to build one based on 6-STABLE, which is known to work and
try using 4.x sources then. I'll post again in a few days.

Thanks Luigi

Nikos

>
> cheers
> luigi