Re: Loader not found

[Gary Allan <dragonfly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello,

If you're trying to put BSD on a USB/Compact Flash card you should look 
at the miniBSD scripts.

https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/ro-fs.html

The provided scripts should apply with little modification against 
DragonFly. I've used the above scripts as a starting point to install 
FreeBSD 4 (inc Perl 5.8, Apache and Exim) on a 64Mb compact flash card 
mounted read-only. (~48Mb in use.)

Regards

Gary

Bill Hacker wrote:
> Chris Pressey wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:08:46 +0800
>> Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Software needs to ship on a USB stick these days, maybe
>>> with a 5$ ccd camera thrown in.
> 
> 
> Picked up a Kingston 1GB USB today - earmarked for DFLY
> research on that issue.
> 
> I am sure that I can get it into 256, not sure about 128.
> 
> At current trends, 256-512 would be 'good enough',
> and larger would allow a good deal of workspace
> for stored docs and such..
> 
>>>
>>> Better chance of raising funds for the project, also.
>>> Newbies these days don't buy the books - they can't read.
>>>
>>> Free, as in not for profit, *costs covered*, rather than free,
>>> as in go hungry in order to contribute equipment as well as time,
>>> would be a nice change to the model.
>>
>>
>>
>> Interesting thought...  I know we've come within inches of successfully
>> building a DragonFly "LivePenDrive"; I think the problem was that, once
>> the overhead of the filesystem was factored in, it was just slightly
>> bigger than 128M.  Trimming it down slightly would surely make it
>> feasible.
>>
> 
> Keep in mind that - realistically - it is probably 6-10 months out
> (my personal guess) before DFLY is ready to do 'serious' chasing
> of 'market penetration' (if such term applies to F/OSS).
> 
> 512MB - 1 GB are already quite affordable, 2 GB on the shelves,
> (4 GB are usually CF-size micro-HDD).
> 
>>> But no - it needn't be.  One floppy, then go over the wire...
>>
>>
>> Just to split hairs, it's not exactly the same thing - you'd have to
>> keep the system image entirely in memory for it to be "Live" in the
>> sense of "I can play with it without installing it to my hdd."
> 
> 
> ACK, as in QNX old demo.  Connectivity, GUI, browser, and all.
> That sort of item (1.44 MB) is really a pure 'demo' -
> *Very* selective strip-down. Oh - you could do a CLI-only
> for an embedded app in less than that - but nothing that
> would be attractive to today's users.
> 
>>
>> Of course, most modern machines do have enough memory to do that.
> 
> 
> AFAIK 256 is pretty standard in commodity boxen, 512 'soon', 1 GB
> no longer just 'power' users.
> 
> Again - cast the projection out about 6+ months - not just today.
> 
>> Of course, those same machines are increasingly less likely to have
>> floppy drives :/
> 
> 
> Target on USB.  Far more universal already than FDD ever were.
> 
> Bill
> 
>