>Since I couldn't get the CF reader to work in NetBSD (turns out that
>machine's USB ports aren't reliable since the bus speed has been
>overclocked),

Eep!

>I ended up writing the flash from Windows. The DiskProbe
>utility that comes with the Windows 2000 Support Tools will do the
>trick, but if you can use NetBSD, dd is much easier :) I wrote the
>boot-big.fs floppy image from the NetBSD 1.5 CD to the flash, booted the
>IA-1 from that, and did the install over NFS. Now I'm working on getting
>it upgraded to -current...

Very fun.

>I want to try to make it self-contained, rather than mounting stuff over
>NFS, so I need to trim down the amount of stuff that's installed on the
>flash. Currently, I'm using about 70megs for NetBSD and X. I still need
>to fit a browser on there (Galeon? But the package seems to depend on
>full blown Mozilla, which means it uses even more disk space than
>Mozilla by itself. Any way to get Galeon with just the Gecko engine and
>without the rest of Mozilla?)

I haven't seen a way to.  I was able to get a minimal install without /usr
to fit, barely.  I have a config file (enclosed) which is producing about a
1.5MB kernel; can't get it much smaller, it appears.

-s