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Author: Daniel Bissett
Date: 27-01-00 22:38
Hi all!
Is it possible, or even adviseable, to boot and run freebsd from a floppy when the machhine has a limited use such as a gateway, router, firewall or nat?
(P.S. -- Thanks for the Forum. I think that they are far easier than maillists, newsgroups and the like.)
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 28-01-00 00:50
Have you tried picobsd?
At <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/projects.html">http://www.freebsd.org/projects/projects.html</a> you'll see it says:
Small and embedded FreeBSD (PicoBSD) PicoBSD is a one floppy version of FreeBSD which in its different variations allows you to have secure dial-up access, small diskless router, or even a dial-in server. All of this on only one standard 1.44MB floppy disk. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM, and no hard drive is required!
The home page is <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/</a>
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Author: Elihu
Date: 25-04-00 17:44
I had this same question since I have a drive that my 486 motherboard doesn't know how to boot from. The FreeBSD install works fine, but upon reboot, it can't find the drive.
Is there a way to boot from a floppy, just to get the kernel in memory, then the kernel can figure out the drive geometry and boot the rest from the disk?
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Author: Polarweasel
Date: 29-09-00 17:37
I'm making a firewall for a friend, and she wants to set it up and forget about it -- and preferably not hear it! Thus, low power requirements are a Very Good Thing in this case. If I can get away with no HDD and no fans, I'll be happy.
Dan suggested PicoBSD, but I notice that project really doesn't have a lot of activity. Is it secure enough? Is there anything out there that's more current, and aimed straight at firewall/router duties?
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/ is a similar project in the Linux world, but I'd rather stay in the *BSD world if I can. NetBSD firewall (http://www.dubbele.com/) is another option, but I'd love for this to be totally diskette-based, no HD required.
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