PicoBSD diskless embedded 'where to start'

[Richard P. Williamson]

I've looked through man picobsd, as well as the docs supplied
with the scripts themselves; I've found them both to be structured
other than the way my brain works.  Polite way of admitting that
I've not figured them out yet :\ 

And your link I like, it has what I'm looking for...pardon me
while I bookmark that puppy.

rip

At 21:08 05/02/2004, Bruce R. Montague wrote:

> 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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