From owner-freebsd-small Sun May 24 22:50:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23919 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles213.castles.com [208.214.165.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23908 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10256; Sun, 24 May 1998 21:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805250446.VAA10256@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: randal@comtest.com cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embeded applications? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 19:27:06 -1000." <199805250509.TAA13467@oldyeller.comtest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 21:46:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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