From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 03:57:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2231E16A4CE; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC3843D2D; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:57:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2ABvW9v040929; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:57:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Marc Fonvieille From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:36:12 +0100." <20040310113611.GA1241@abigail.blackend.org> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:57:32 +0100 Message-ID: <40928.1078919852@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: current@freebsd.org cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "nanobsd" prototype X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:57:36 -0000 In message <20040310113611.GA1241@abigail.blackend.org>, Marc Fonvieille writes : >On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:16:37AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >[...] >> >> Feedback of all sorts most welcome! And more documentation >> to arrive as it gets written. >> > >It'd be great to be able to choose, via a parameter, between a 3 slices >version and a 2 slices one. Or one should trim down the installed >images, a 128MB CF card should be the minimal media size. >Well I know 256MB will be less expensive in future, and since I'm still >using 8MB cards on the 4501, I must be an outdated guy :)) Not long ago I manually cut down a -current to run in 32MB but I admit that there were a fair bit of stuff missing :-) My main goal with this is to give us a common ground to work from, and avoid us all reinventing the deep plate and the hot water over and over again. Patches which improve it are most welcome :-) Poul-Henning PS: I've committed it to src/tools/tools/nanobsd in order to make it easier for me now that the patches will be pouring in :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.