Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 21:46:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: randal@comtest.com Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embeded applications? Message-ID: <199805250446.VAA10256@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 19:27:06 -1000." <199805250509.TAA13467@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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> On 24 May 98 at 15:52, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > >From your description, I think rawboot does what you want - it pulls data > > > block by block using BIOS INT 13. > > > > Rawboot just gets around the minor space wastage you get from having a > > filesystem on the boot image - it was a desperate "help the install > > image is too big" bandaid, and should probably be exterminated. > > So should I just use the standard boot1 and boot2 ? That's the easiest-and-best way, yes. > Also what would be the commands to create the boot image for a hard disk boot? > dd and disklabel commands ? Look in the PicoBSD kit - it creates a 1.44MB image. You can just tweak the parameters for that to make something bigger. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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