I absolutely agree.


I have just done the conversion. I had been LRP 1-disk router for 2 years.
The transfer rate getting from the router was max 20KB on a cable network.
Then I switched to NetBSD the transfer rate now is max 50KB on the same
network. Although the hardware is slightly different I moved from 486-66
with 20MRam to Pentium 100 with 24Mram.

I still wish NetBSD kernel can be as small as Linux at 500K though. But
again I am just never satisfied.
----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net>
Cc: NetBSD i386 port list <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: A boot disk


> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:14:53PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > before switching my linux gateway to NetBSD, I would like to check
> > a compiled kernel that I've done for it. I'm now wondering how
> > can I create a boot disk with my own kernel to check if the
> > computer boot ok... (don't need sh or anything, just the kernel).
> >
> > I've tried to write some of the cdrom images inside
> > i386/installation/floppy to a floppy disk, but then I'm unable to
> > mount them in any directory! So I can't change it's kernel....
> >
> > Any idea?
>
> Simplest might be:
>
> disklabel -r -w /dev/fd0a floppy3
> newfs /dev/fd0a
> /usr/mdec/installboot -v -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a
> mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
> cp yourkernel /mnt
>
> and see how far it gets...
>
>
> > P.S: Do you think NetBSD is ok for a gateway and server (http, ftp)?
> > (security and such things).
>
> Of course! Then again, I'd be biased ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>