At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then discovered that the "picobsd" manpage told me everything I needed to know (to set up a non-harddisk filtering bridge booting off a floppy) in a staightforward, non-confusing manner.
PicoBSD is great if you want to do what PicoBSD is geared for, but many people can think of their own custom systems that they would like to have burned on a CD-ROM. Not "pico" small, but still much less than the full-blown freebsd, and does not require a working hard disk to run. For those people, PicoBSD is *too* successful at being small.
Besides, if you had a nice book with an accurate and detailed info on how to do build such systems, then you wouldn't have to waste any time searching those web sites... :-) Another example of where this information is useful is for hardware like the small, diskless boxes at http://www.soekris.com/. One of the CS grad students set up freebsd on a box like that, and gave a presentation of it at a local Unix users group, and everyone was very interested in what he had done. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
