Subject: Re: msdosfs boot code
To: None <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Jeff Weisberg <jaw@Op.Net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/05/1997 17:42:42
| 
| >If anyone else has interest in booting netbsd off of
| >an msdos floppy (or in a netbsd based router), I'd be
| >willing to clean up the code a bit and share.
| 
| I'd be interested, but I'm skeptical about how much of a "router" fits
| on a floppy -- even with compressed kernel and crunched boot
| utiltilities.  The NetBSD-1.2/i386 install floppies have about 50k
| free, and gated is not small.  How do you address the size
| constraints?  With 2.88Mbyte floppies, or something else?

ordinary 1.4M floppies. crunch and gzip help.
definately no gated. has routed.
(it's intended to be used as an end user (ppp/ethernet) router
and not an ISP core router).

it has just enough to be useful.
pppd, telnetd, netstat, ping, traceroute, routed, tftp, ...


	--jeff