last known 4-.x-RELEASE where PicoBSD can be built

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 13:50, you wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:11:44PM +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:42, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:06:45AM +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I tried to build PicoBSD using sources from RELENG_4 on a
> > > > 4.10-RELEASE-p5 system and it failed. I (think|know) it's working
> > > > again on RELENG_6, but I want to use 4.x branch. So, which
> > > > sources should I get to build it?
> > >
> > > if you take the script that i recently committed to -current
> > > and -stable (/usr/src/release/picobsd/build/picobsd)
> > > it should work also with 4.x sources
> > >
> > > it relies on ports/sysutils/makefs to build
> > > the file system image without the need for
> > > root permissions
> > >
> > > one thing you might have to do is increase the fd_size
> > > to 2880 (in the imagename/config file) due to
> > > increased code size
> >
> > I still have problems(might as well be the lack of experience though).
> > I will try to build one based on 6-STABLE, which is known to work and
> > try using 4.x sources then. I'll post again in a few days.
>
> if you want to post me the error messages you get i am
> willing to help.

I will do that Luigi, since PicoBSD is for small devices and
FreeBSD-4 has by far the features you could want from
such a device. Unbreaking it will be nice...

But, I have no time right now, I'll post in a couple of days...

> remember that on 4.x you cannot build a 6.x or above.
>
> cheers
> luigi