1998.07.12, Warsaw, Poland PicoBSD @VER@ (NET) ----------------- What is PicoBSD? ---------------- It's a one floppy version of FreeBSD (please see http://www.freebsd.org), configured mainly for networking applications. It can be used as a router or firewall, or kind of a fixit floppy (or all of them). You can find more information on the home page of this project at: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ What are minimal requirements? ------------------------------ * 386SX CPU or better (there is an FPU emulator in kernel) * 10MB RAM - the more the better. If you have an HDD, you can make a swap partition or swap file (using vnode driver and vnconfig). Then you probably will be able to run with ca. 6MB only. But RAM is cheap... * Modem sitting on COM1-COM4 (default is to use COM2), if you want to have a PPP connection. * Network card: compatible with NE2000, PCI Intel, 3Com 3c509 or with DEC chipsets (ed, ep, fxp and de drivers). The kernel supports two of each ISA (i.e. +6 total) plus two PPP connections (tun interfaces). So you can easily build something like router with as many as 8 outlets :-) For detailed description and list of supported hardware see the original documentation, or: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html I'll be glad hearing from you about your experiences with PicoBSD. Thanks. Have fun! Andrzej Bialecki