1998.02.20, Warsaw, Poland

				PicoBSD 0.3
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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),
configured mainly for networking applications. It can be used as a router or
firewall, or kind of a fixit floppy (or all of them).

What are minimal requirements?
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* 386SX CPU or better (there is an FPU emulator in kernel)
* 12MB 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, or PCI cards with DEC chipsets
  (ed and de drivers). The kernel supports two of them (i.e. four total) plus
  two PPP connections (tun interfaces). So you can easily build something like
  router with as many as 6 outlets :-)

What is different from previous verison?
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* More in-kernel drivers
* ATAPI CD-ROM support
* No ssh, ftp nor ee editor (which means you have to mount the floppy on
  normal system in order to edit config files)
* Added: inetd, telnetd, routed, ps, kill, netstat, ping, traceroute
* passwd(1) works (but only if you run it as root)
* Support for NFS client
* There are initially two users: root (password 'setup') and user (password
  'PicoBSD'). I had problems with correctly setting up permissions (as most
  of the programs are just one big file with hard links), so that several
  things which normal user can do here are impossible (no suid bit set). This
  means that normal user can do as much as telnet from the system....
* Added 'update' script which updates the contents of /etc directory on the
  startup floppy (in case you changed e.g. password).


I'll be glad hearing from you about your experiences with PicoBSD. Thanks.

Have fun!
  
Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>

PS. Contrary to the previous version of PicoBSD (which contained ssh), this
version is fully under BSD license.
