"nanobsd" prototype

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Thu Mar 11 12:44:47 PST 2004


At 20:19 11/03/2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > As I understand it picoBSD has never managed the 4.x->5.x transition
> > and is scheduled to be removed if nobody starts paying attention
> > to it soon.
>
>I may be looking at it soon as it still produces a smaller system than
>'nanoBSD' and works well for systems with old 8MB flash.

   Just a general reminder about building small images: NetBSD's makefs
(available as ports/sysutils/makefs) creates disk images a few % smaller
than those built via memory disks.

Colin Percival




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