Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:28:43 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "nanobsd" prototype Message-ID: <200403121128.43780.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040311204212.040a8230@imap.sfu.ca> References: <53045.1079035854@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403111213470.87340-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040311204212.040a8230@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:14, Colin Percival wrote: > >I may be looking at it soon as it still produces a smaller system than > >'nanoBSD' and works well for systems with old 8MB flash. > > Just a general reminder about building small images: NetBSD's makefs > (available as ports/sysutils/makefs) creates disk images a few % smaller > than those built via memory disks. It also doesn't need root privs which could be very useful for people wishing to be able to make releases without having to use root. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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