Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:35:26 +0530 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposed picobsd changes... Message-ID: <20000120173526.E533@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200001191845.TAA07055@info.iet.unipi.it>; from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it on Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 07:45:59PM %2B0100 References: <200001191845.TAA07055@info.iet.unipi.it>
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On Wednesday, 19 January 2000 at 19:45:59 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > I have a set of changes to picobsd scripts etc which i will > hopefully commit in the next days. > > See http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pico.000119.patch > for a detailed patch (which is not very long): > > The main changes are as follows: > > + remove the forth/ stuff, and greatly simplify the loader > scripts as Greg Lehey did for 4.0. This saves quite a bit of > room from the floppy image. > > + a small change to rc scripts etc so you can copy things to > a hard disk or so and enjoy the higher boot speed. > > + make the "build" script look for configuration parameters > (e.g. floppy sizes etc) in ../*/PICOBSD i.e. the kernel > config file. This makes it simpler to add new floppy types > without having to play with 'custom' directory, and removes > parameters from the build script. > > The kernel config file is not the best place to do this but > i wanted to avoid having even more config files around. If > someone can suggest a better place I will be happy to follow > good suggestions. > > Please have a look at the diffs and see if you like them. I won't have time to look at the changes, but they sound good. How does this match the feature freeze? 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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