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I'd really love to give OpenBSD a try outside of VM testing. Does it have something like FreeBSD's NanoBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/
by bconway 13y ago
I'd really love to give OpenBSD a try outside of VM testing. Does it have something like FreeBSD's NanoBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/...) yet? The seamless update-image-and-switch is a killer feature for my embedded use.
- papsosouid 13y agoEven after reading that, I still don't understand what "nanobsd" is supposed to be for. All of the big 3 BSDs have used crunchgen plus kernels with embedded filesystems to create small, single file systems for over a decade. That's how the installation images are made.
- cdjk 13y agoThe OpenBSD equivalent to NanoBSD is flashrd: http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/ http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/ It's not officially supported, however, and only recommended for systems that are likely to suffer power outages and for which running fsck would be problematic. I've used it a little on embedded systems and so far it's worked fine.