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Today's Topics:
1. Re: TinyBSD article for the doc/ tree [was: Re: tinybsd qemu
small howto] (Jean Milanez Melo)
2. Re: TinyBSD article for the doc/ tree [was: Re: tinybsd qemu
small howto] (Giorgos Keramidas)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:45:05 -0300
From: Jean Milanez Melo <jm...@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
Subject: Re: TinyBSD article for the doc/ tree [was: Re: tinybsd qemu
small howto]
To: Giorgos Keramidas <kera...@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebs...@freebsd.org, freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <47D55781...@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> An SGML article, with most of the text being just an adaptation of the
> tinybsd/Documentation wiki page is now online at:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/tinybsd-20080310-01/article.sgml
>
> A preformatted version of the article is available in the same directory.
> You can read it at:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/tinybsd-20080310-01/article.html
>
That's great Giorgos! Thanks for your help. :)
> Can you please review the article? It would be interesting to know:
>
> - If there are technical errors in what I wrote. My first TinyBSD
> build is running as I'm typing this, so I don't really count as
> an experienced TinyBSD user.
There are no errors, everything is ok.
>
> - If there is something else you would like me to add.
>
The article is very objective and i think that is what we want to.
Congratz! :)
> - If there are parts you don't like about the text, sections that
> we should rewrite, fix, and so on.
No, that's ok, very good as i said, please just change only my mail
address to jm...@freebsd.org.
>
> There are also a few parts which I haven't completely converted yet, and
> some places where I have questions about MFSROOT images and config file
> changes. I'll experiment a bit with the TinyBSD image I'm building now,
> but if you can help me fill in the last few sections, it would be nice :)
>
Oks, what are your questions about MFSROOT and config files?
About the last sections i'll organize what i wrote and will send it to
you by private mail.
> You can see how I'm considering to organize the remaining sections by
> reading the SGML comments in the `article.sgml' file.
>
I have a sugestion: what do you think about create a new handbook
session called "embedded" and add both nanobsd and tinybsd article? i
think it could be better.
Cheers,
--
Jean
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:11:58 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <kera...@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: TinyBSD article for the doc/ tree [was: Re: tinybsd qemu
small howto]
To: Jean Milanez Melo <jm...@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
Cc: freebs...@freebsd.org, freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <2008031021...@kobe.laptop>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On 2008-03-10 12:45, Jean Milanez Melo <jm...@freebsdbrasil.com.br> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> An SGML article, with most of the text being just an adaptation of the
>> tinybsd/Documentation wiki page is now online at:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/tinybsd-20080310-01/article.sgml
>>
>> A preformatted version of the article is available in the same directory.
>> You can read it at:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/tinybsd-20080310-01/article.html
>
> That's great Giorgos! Thanks for your help. :)
Neat.
>> - If there are parts you don't like about the text, sections that
>> we should rewrite, fix, and so on.
>
> No, that's ok, very good as i said, please just change only my mail
> address to jm...@freebsd.org.
Done, and a new copy uploaded (in place).
>> There are also a few parts which I haven't completely converted yet, and
>> some places where I have questions about MFSROOT images and config file
>> changes. I'll experiment a bit with the TinyBSD image I'm building now,
>> but if you can help me fill in the last few sections, it would be nice :)
>
> Oks, what are your questions about MFSROOT and config files?
If one is using an MFSROOT image, config changes have to be saved on
disk, right? What is the preferred way of doing this in TinyBSD images?
My intuition would be to search for /dev/da0 partitions, mount them as
read-write, edit the configuration, and unmount. Does that sound ok?
> About the last sections i'll organize what i wrote and will send it to
> you by private mail.
Excellent! I'll wait for the new text :)
> I have a sugestion: what do you think about create a new handbook
> session called "embedded" and add both nanobsd and tinybsd article? i
> think it could be better.
That's a worthy goal. When we finish writing up the TinyBSD text and
polishing any final details, it will be a good idea to work with Daniel
(who wrote about NanoBSD) and add a Handbook chapter called `Embedded
FreeBSD'. There's a lot of interest in embedding FreeBSD these days, so
my guess is people are going to love reading about it :)
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