Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:00:17 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> Cc: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010207090017.D16642@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070738040.23420-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>; from forrestc@imach.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:41:50AM -0700 References: <20010207081758.B16642@peorth.iteration.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070738040.23420-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:41:50AM -0700, Forrest W. Christian scribbled: | On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: | > The point is that modern (or old) embedded systems have flash or | > other forms of non-volatile storage rather than using floppies. | > And the 1.44mb limit is somewhat too small. | | And seeing as you can now get a 8mb flash disk which plugs directly into | the IDE port from several sources for around $35-40, and a 16mb version | for $55 ish (and bigger versions also for slightly more), a floppy looks | less and less attractive. | | That said, I think the real attractiveness of PicoBSD is the small | utilities and the methods developed of squeezing "every" unneeded byte out | of the kernel as 8 or 16mb is not endless... Cruchgen makes for very hard to update and very hard to update binaries. I cannot simply update my ssh client by replacing the binary. I would have to replace the whole image, which is dangerous. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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