PicoBSD diskless embedded 'where to start'

Chris Fox chrisfox8 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 5 22:31:46 PST 2004


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Cybertime Hostmaster wrote:
|>I'm trying to put together a diskless embedded system based on
|>the PicoBSD scripts supplied with FreeBSD 4.8R.
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| Just as a point of interest, any special reason why PicoBSD?
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|>1) I need to build a PicoBSD system that will boot from a flash device
|>(SanDisk at the moment, may need support for M-Systems DiskOnChip later)
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| The smallest M-Systems seems to have is 16 MB.

You beat me to it.  The typical flash drive sold now is 128MB and if you
have the money you can go up to 2GB.  You can boot any number of
operating systems from that kind of storage, and they don't need to be
stripped down.  Even the very smallest flash drive I ever heard of,
16MB, holds eleven floppies worth of data; enough for a fairly complete
FreeBSD OS and room left for config data.

Interesting project by the way.  Though I bet booting off USB has alredy
been done somewhere.

- --
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