Re: "nanobsd" prototype

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:28:43 +1030
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:14, Colin Percival wrote:
> >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.

It also doesn't need root privs which could be very useful for people wishing 
to be able to make releases without having to use root.

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