On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote: > I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com > in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact > flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a > hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one > of those boxes using a compact flash card?
My current firewall is FreeBSD 5.3-beta7 running on a Celeron 700 with a pair of xl NICs running from a 128MB Compact Flash card via an IDE->CF convertor. I basically installed FreeBSD on a spare parition on my desktop, recompiled the kernel to remove stuff that I didn't need and copies directories like /usr, /bin etc over (very unscientific but I was in a rush and didn't have time to write a nice script to automate it yet). The CF card is mounted read only. rc.conf looks like this: hostname="gimli.middleearth" ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" ifconfig_xl1="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00" sshd_enable="YES" varmfs="YES" tmpmfs="YES" populate_var="YES" pf_enable="YES" (unfortunately the stuff in the handbook regarding read only file systems is obsoleted by rcNG) and fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1a / ufs ro 0 0 You could very very easily fit it onto a 64MB CF card or maybe even 32 if you leave out some of the kernel modules, it just takes a bit more thought and time. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org
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