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1998.07.12, Warsaw, Poland
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PicoBSD 0.4 (NET)
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What is PicoBSD?
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It's a one floppy version of FreeBSD (please see http://www.freebsd.org),
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configured mainly for networking applications. It can be used as a router or
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firewall, or kind of a fixit floppy (or all of them).
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You can find more information on the home page of this project at:
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http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/
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What are minimal requirements?
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* 386SX CPU or better (there is an FPU emulator in kernel)
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* 10MB RAM - the more the better. If you have an HDD, you can make a
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swap partition or swap file (using vnode driver and vnconfig). Then you
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probably will be able to run with ca. 6MB only. But RAM is cheap...
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* Modem sitting on COM1-COM4 (default is to use COM2), if you want to have
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a PPP connection.
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* Network card: compatible with NE2000, PCI Intel, 3Com 3c509 or with DEC
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chipsets (ed, ep, fxp and de drivers). The kernel supports two of them
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(i.e. 7 total) plus two PPP connections (tun interfaces). So you can
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easily build something like router with as many as 9 outlets :-)
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For detailed description and list of supported hardware see the original
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documentation, or:
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http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html
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I'll be glad hearing from you about your experiences with PicoBSD. Thanks.
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Have fun!
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Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
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