Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:54:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Timo Rossi <trossi@co.jyu.fi>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New approach to picobsd Message-ID: <20000126075445.B42227@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <l03130300b4b3032bdc75@[194.32.164.2]> References: <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi>; <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi> <20000125103358.U2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <l03130300b4b3032bdc75@[194.32.164.2]>
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On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 7:40:19 +0000, Bob Bishop wrote: > At 10:33 +0800 25/1/00, Greg Lehey wrote: >> [...] >> Unfortunately, the current PicoBSD system is oriented towards >> floppies. This has the great disadvantage, at least in the current >> implementation, that each crunched executable repeats the library >> contents. For a flash memory system it would make more sense to have >> a single executable... > > Um, that's what the current PicoBSD system does? Is this a question or a statement? In any case, for the multiple disk configuration the answer is "no". There's one crunched executable per disk, and that involves repetition. >> ...which might be larger than a single floppy. Currently that's not the way it's done. It might be an option, and I suppose somebody should explore it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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