Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Jason Hecker wrote:
> 
>>What documentation should I be looking at as a guide for getting a
>>FLASHable (as in standard memeory mapped FLASH) image with a compressed
>>kernel and filesystem?  I've picked up some clues from the archives of
>>this mailing list and from poking about in the arch conf files and other
>>source but there are things missing.

> The process itself is scattered across a bunch of machine-dependent and
> machine-independent Makefile-fragments, see src/distrib/common and
> src/distrib/i386/floppies/common etc.

I have written some docs about creating tiny OSes based on NetBSD.
 
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2003/09/Features102.html
  and
http://brianrose.net/family/fetch.php?dir=Brian/NetBSD/Embedded&filename=content.html

You could probably combine these with a motherboard that will boot from a USB flash drive to get a decent prototype from off the shelf equipment.

 
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Brian