Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:31:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Backup Chapter Updates Message-ID: <20030909191117.H68939@wonkity.com>
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Browsing through the Backup chapter today, I saw the script for generating a bootable floppy. Problem #1: the kernel config file shown has quite a bit of obsolete stuff. Problem #2: okay, how about manually trimming everything possible out of the 4.8 GENERIC kernel config file? It turns out that trimming it down to fit on the approximate 273K of free space on a 1.4M floppy is impossible. The questions: If current releases of FreeBSD (4/5) will only fit on a rare 2.8M floppy, is it worth updating that section of the Backup chapter rather than removing it? El Torito bootable CDs can use a 2.8M floppy image; should the script and instructions be modified to produce such an image, and just forget floppies? Instructions on building a bootable recovery disk seem a little out of place in the Backup chapter anyway. Bootable CDs and LiveCDs have been a topic of discussion on -questions, too. Is there a more appropriate place for this type of material, or is the subject worthy of a chapter by itself? Off-hand, I can think of a bunch of URLs that could be included in such a chapter: FreeSBIE, the original Brazilian LiveCD, MiniBSD, and some of the other small installs meant for embedded Soekris-type use. But what do you call such a chapter? "Minimizing FreeBSD", maybe? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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