NanoBSD :: smallest image size

[Paul Procacci]

Maciej Milewski wrote:
> Thursday 19 February 2009 15:07:50 Paul Procacci napisał(a):
>   
>> After looking
>> through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that
>> seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this
>> question.  I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image
>> size possible using NanoBSD.  So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the
>> proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an
>> old computer bootable off of a usb stick?  How can I tell without buying
>> one?
>>     
> I think that it will be quite hard to make it running from floppy. If you don't 
> want to install it on this HD (f.ex. because of noise) then you can replace 
> HDD with Disk-On-Module or CF card with CF-IDE adapter.
> With booting from usb on such rather old computers I had so many problems that 
> I went for other options like these mentioned above.
>
> Maciek
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>   
This information was precisely what I was looking for.  Thank you.

~Paul