New Boot Loader Menu

[Garrett Cooper]

On Oct 7, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Pico, or Nano?
> I know that Pico no longer fits on a single floppy but it's still pretty damned small.

Have to be Pico. Nano is still too big by default (unless you pull almost every feature and non-essential piece, the lowest I've gotten a running image so far is 124MB unpacked with a GENERIC kernel. Granted, if it wasn't GENERIC that would save 10~20 MB, but there are still other things that need to be trimmed from the base system (another effort for another day/thread).

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> true, though I'd like to see if it can be done without the whole extra CD..

Should be doable with a ~64MB USB stick. I did an ok job [without NanoBSD/PicoBSD] creating a thin client with X11 with ~140MB space used and I wasn't trying terribly hard to pare things down (especially if it's a compressed mfsroot :]…).

-Garrett