Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:18:33 -0800 From: Matt Peterson <matt-antispam@peterson.org> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: FemBSD Message-ID: <20011219171833.C48535@moaner.org>
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First off, I appreciate the tips provided from the list earlier this week on stripping down FreeBSD (w/o using PicoBSD). Iım using the NO_xyz installworld suggestion, along with a minimal kernel and /etc directory. My platform is the famous Soekris net4501 board loaded with a 128Mb Sundisk CF card ($59 @ Costco). Iıve run into a few questions: Does the FreeBSD boot loader use ANSI sequences (or something other then vt100)? For some reason, all I see is funkiness depending on the terminal program during the boot loader work. Teraterm shows one line being written over and over during each prompt (BIOS C: /|\ etc..), while cu jets to the top of the screen and only shows one character at a time. However, once the kernel is loaded and processing, the screen draws correctly. Iım not sure whom to blame, Soren or the boot loader? emBSd (based off of OpenBSD) doesnıt seem to have this problem. How do folks maximize the lifetime of their CF card turned hard drive? Can one do more then mount / read-only and /var as a memory file system? As you can tell, Iım new to this whole world of embedded foo. Thanks again guys! FemBSD is coming along quite well (Free embedded BSD ;) --Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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