Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: ... > The machine has dual-core xeon cpu and 2 gb of ram so it is quite > fast. It is a small router box, so I have choose CF over regular hdd.
I'd suggest re-examining this decision... I've seen a lot of suggestions which complicate your life, all to get around a dubious decision that has complicated your life already. For less than the cost of the flash adapter and the CF flash card, you can get yourself a tried and true (i.e., used) hard disk, assuming you don't have a pile of them on hand already. Most of the reasons for using flash have been completely negated by the rest of the machine -- it draws a fair amount of power, it has big, noisy CPU fans, and it is bigger than a paper back book. Might as well just put a hard disk in it and make your life a LOT easier. > What I am looking for is a way to update the system as easily as with > freebsd-update of apt-get. > Unpacking archives to my / looks fine, but I was wondering if there is > an easier method. That's..uh..pretty easy already. That's how I do almost all of my systems since I started doing upgradeXX.html documents quite a few years ago. If your machine has a non-stupid POST (i.e., not sold as a "server"), with very little practice, you can do a version upgrade in two reboots and 15 minutes (and downtime only during the reboots), and system updates (patched same version) with one (or no) reboot. Nick.
