Jason George wrote: >>Sometime ago I had run EmBSD on a little P100 and it served me nicely. Since >>its disappearance from the landscape I've been using a stock OpenBSD install >>on my home machine. However, I recently acquired a nice little Jetway board >>with a PicoPSU and the idea of running EmBSD came to mind again. Would >>anyone know if the EmBSD developers posted a recipe on how to make such a >>stripped down version of OpenBSD? Alternatively is there documentation >>elsewhere on how to do it? I was thinking about buying an industrial grade >>flash drive from logicsupply.com and loading the OS onto it in place of the >>CF method used by EmBSD. >> >> > > Why don't you just use flashboot as the basis for your new recipe? > > http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/
here's a better idea: just use a standard install. It is very difficult to buy a <1G flash media anymore that isn't covered in dust, so it is hard (if not nearly impossible) to justify building a crippled system anymore. Yes, it is cool to think you have shrunk an OS down to 32M and still have it do the job, but if you are just following someone else's script, you get no Geek Points by doing so, other than it proves you can follow instructions (which in large part indicates other people can WRITE instructions). So, you get no functional gain, considerable functional loss, you get no Geek Macho points and you irritate the rest of us when the inevitable problems crop up and you come running to us for help. If you want to prove you are cool in a constructive way, run -current. You will experience far less down time than you will running wacko customized stuff you don't understand, and you will help make the next release of OpenBSD better. Nick.
