Re: OpenBSD 4.2 PF with flash-card as a disk?

2008-01-06 Thread David Querbach
I think it would be a good idea to build a FW (OpenBSD 4.2+PF) with a flash-card as a disk. I see two related questions: 1) ?How to make an OpenBSD regular instalation on flash-card? This really is not a pf question. However you will find that CF looks like an IDE HDD. Just go ahead

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 PF with flash-card as a disk?

2008-01-06 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:35:11 -0800, David Querbach wrote: I've just recently built an OpenBSD firewall with a CF disk. It works just fine -- the installation proceeds exactly as for a mechanical disk. I do, however, use the mfsmount script

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 PF with flash-card as a disk?

2008-01-06 Thread David Querbach
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:10:49PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: In many small systems, Soekris for example, RAM is sometimes scarce. When I see people using MFS in that situation and then creating a swap partition in MFS too, I fall about laughing. Yes, that would indeed be silly. I'm