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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD Router Challenge! Date: 28 Nov 1995 00:37:39 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 40 Message-ID: <49dlkj$k1k@times.tfs.com> References: <30BA1B1E.2781E494@maui.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com check out 'crunchgen' and crunchgen(1).. for an example of how it works, see /usr/src/etc/Makefile it can combine may executables into one.. I think you might then want to load it into a RAM filesystem in the kernel (like the install) check out the 'fixit' floppy and how it's made in 2.1 In article <30BA1B1E.2781E494@maui.com>, Richard Puga <puga@maui.com> wrote: :I have BSD running on a 386sx/25.. Why? you ask.. well its sole purpose :in life is to be a router which dials up a PPP account and routes :traffic to an ethernet card and keeps the phone line up all day.... : :I started from a 200 + meg OS and trimed it down to 14 megs and have the :whole thing running on a 4 meg machine with a 20 meg hard drive... : :What I want to do is get it to fit on a single floppy... Is this :possible? : :what I need is a kernel with the math emulaotor ( unless there is :another way) Toshiharu OHNO's PPP daemon, routed , serial ports for the :modem and an ethernet driver for whatever ethernet card... : :The trickie part is to get rid of all the other stuff so I can fit it on :a floppy.. you know like /usr... shells in general,.. password files :most of /dev ECT.. : :If someone is willing to take this on I think it would be a way cool :thing to have.. it would sure make use out of the old pc in the closet :and is alott cheeper than a router for $800.00,,, : :Well If anyone can get this to work within 1.44 megs I would sure :apreciate it if you would uuencode the entire os and e-mail it to me :along with the file you used for the kernel build.... :