Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:26:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Mann <bmann@whistle.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-n-P Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980605140502.5157A-100000@chaco.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980605222321.28686E-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > I'd like to be able to hand people a couple of picoBSD floppies > > with a Java capable browser, possibly a trimmed communicator, have [...] > > I like this idea too. But I doubt you can fit the browser on a floppy, and > still have room for Java VM and the classes... I'm not saying it's > impossible, I just would like to see it myself :-)) OTOH, if you have > specific idea how to do this, I'd love to know it. > > I already thought about this, and my idea was to prepare an image of FFS > filesystem that could be put as a file on DOS partition, and then vnconfig > it and mount as root. There you could fit all you want... > Yes, that's what I was thinking. Nothing fancy. Have the OS and X fit on 2 floppies then squeeze mozilla w/Java onto a couple of others. The install would essentially be a DOS/Windows install that throws the OS and other software onto the harddrive and as it's last piece of business asks if the user wants to launch FreeBSD/X. If they select yes then run a special just installed bootpico.exe, if they select no then later they could click an icon that was added to their Windows interface or a single .bat file added to launch FreeBSD/X from DOS. My plan was that when they booted the system would come up with an X-login and have a simple X desktop just below that. Bryan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. (This signature brought to you courtesy of fortune(6) and cron(8).) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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