On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:56:56PM -0600, darren_at_chatcanada.net wrote: > If I want to create a small bsd, rather a boot floppy with very limited > software as I won't be needing much...(one program and harddrive access) > how should I go about it.. I tried compiling a custom kernel and the > smalest I seem to have been able to make is 2mb. I want to try the > floppies but I could possibly move to cd's. I have a lot of experience making custom FreeBSD distributions. It's not hard once you get the hang of it. If you can use a CD, go for it....CD's are cheap, and can hold hundreds of megabytes of data, so are much easier to work with than floppies. Take a look at the LiveCD project: http://livecd.sourceforge.net which has a Bourne shell script which does a lot of the dirty work for you. Another good project to look at is: FreeSBIE http://www.freesbie.org. They have a nice distribution which boots off of CD, and even has X11 and networking enabled. -- Craig Rodrigues http://crodrigues.org rodrigc_at_crodrigues.orgReceived on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 19:05:20 UTC
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