Subject: Re: one floppy router
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/02/2001 08:51:00
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:27:11PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I remember that there was someone making a kind of a single floppy disk
> > distribution to build a hd less dsl router with netbsd. I can't remember
> > how it was named and where the website was located.
> >
> > Anyone with a better brain ?
> shouldn't be a problem. put init, /etc/rc, pppd, libraries, ifconfig,
> route, ipf, sh, etc etc... to ffs image, compile kernel and put that
> ramdisk to that kernel, gzip and put to floppy.

Where can I ftp your 1.44MB image that does this?  It is not that easy.
You end up needing to use crunched binaries, fiddling with /etc/rc files,
and it is a general PITA to get the very basics onto a floppy.

-Andrew