Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:08:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com> To: Richard.Williamson@u4eatech.com Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PicoBSD diskless embedded 'where to start' Message-ID: <200402052108.i15L8mXr000264@mail.cruzio.com>
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Hi, Richard. re: > ... can I ask here about steps to take? The following "FAQ" is somewhat dated (being most specific to FreeBSD 4.3) but is thorough and has helped a lot of people get up to speed on PicoBSD: http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm Current versions of FreeBSD (other than perhaps "bridge" will not likely fit on a floppy. However, if you read over this doc and customize a picobsd to your needs, picobsd can work great. I've run picobsd booting off SanDisk CD a good bit. You can also do neat stuff like netboot piocbsd pretty easily. Some folks inquired about folding some of this doc into FreeBSD doc a good while back, and at one time that was someone's intent, but the problem seems to be that picobsd is a bit brittle in that as FreeBSD versions change and grow, there are often minor "breakage" and size issues with picobsd. It's a slight moving target. More people probably use picobsd to "roll their own version" than just use the standard configs. This picobsd "FAQ" was aimed at encouraging students to get into embedded systems, so there's a lot of stuff in it that is not specific to FreeBSD/PicoBSD, and I never got around to going back and cleaning it up. The "man picobsd" page is now fairly extensive. - bruce
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