Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:25:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/bridge PICOBSD src/release/picobsd/dial PICOBSD src/release/picobsd/install PICOBSD src/rele Message-ID: <200106262225.AAA99664@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20010627082347.A93007@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Jun 27, 2001 08:23:47 am"
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> On 2001-Jun-21 01:56:59 -0700, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > (This is kind of inconvenient if you have to handle non PnP devices, > > but fortunately these days non-PnP ISA cards are disappearing...) > > Except that one of the claims made about PicoBSD is that it's a good > way of turning an obsolete box into a router/firewall/whatever. It's > likely that the obsolete box has obsolete (non-PnP) cards and may > even have a pre-PnP BIOS. For those boxes you can always 1) recompile the picobsd kernel with the right parameters, or 2) use an obsolete version of FreeBSD which has less code bloat and has room for the loader (or supports loading userconfig commands from a file) so you can use the same floppy image for all sort of junk you find in your office/lab/garage. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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