On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:18:15PM -0300, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: > Igor Pokrovsky wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:17:52PM -0300, Jean Milanez Melo wrote: > > > >>Hello gentlemen, > >> > >>In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ category, > >>ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant to allow an > >>easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It is based on > >>userland copying, library dependencies check/copy and kernel build. > > > > > >What's wrong with PicoBSD? > > > >-ip > > > > PicoBSD is architectural different. > > It is a single crunched program which once loaded is kept always in > memory, while live systems such as TinyBSD, nanobsd, and usually live > CDs load to memory what it needs from the main storage device (cf card, > pendrive, cd, whatever). So it is different at all. After that, PicoBSD > worked very fine before the last releases on RELENG_4, while at RELENG_5 > it became quite hard to build without problems. I personally enjoy > PicoBSD a lot, but it is not an available choice nowadays, 'cos of > building issues. On the other hand, Luigi has recently made a number of > changes which puts PicoBSD back into "yes, it builds" state, which is > great! But in RELENG_5 it stills not accomplishing its goal stated in > picobsd(8), which is: > > picobsd -- floppy disk based FreeBSD system > > ..."try to keep them functional and fitting in the 1.44MB floppy despite > the unavoidable increases in the size of the kernel and its applications" > > In fact fs.picobsd has ~ 1.4MB, plus the kernel, which could take it to > ~3MB total size. Maybe in a 2.8 floppy it would fit today, but it is > somehow different from what used to be in RELENG_4. > > Anyway, there is nothing wrong w/ PicoBSD. It is just different.
Thanks for answering a stupid question. I simply somehow missed the goal of TinyBSD. Just had an association with PicoBSD. As I'm conservative enough to use PicoBSD on RELENG_4, I never tried it on RELENG_5. But how about building PicoBSD on RELENG_5 and burn acquired image on a CD? With CD there should be no space problem. Of cause in that case it's better to use TinyBSD, Live CD or whatever. But just curious about PicoBSD thing. -ip -- Consumer assistance doesn't. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-small To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
