From owner-freebsd-small Wed Feb 7 7: 0: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9AC37B6B4 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4B1F057627; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:00:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:00:17 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Paul Jansen , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010207090017.D16642@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , "Forrest W. Christian" , Paul Jansen , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010207081758.B16642@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from forrestc@imach.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:41:50AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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