[Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Galarneau
I have a net4801 that I'm building into a firewall for home use. With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current best practice for OpenBSD installs? I've tried flashdist, but don't see a compelling reason to slim things down when I have a 4GB CF card. I like the idea of

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Andy Michaels
Hi Jason!  An added benefit of a slimmed down install is that there are fewer vectors of attack.  If you're using OpenBSD, that's probably important to you. You could always start with flashdist and add what you need/want. My only other advice is to make an image of the finalized CF card and keep

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Joakim Aronius
* Johan Huldtgren (johan+soek...@huldtgren.com) wrote: With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current best practice for OpenBSD installs? From experience just doing a standard install is my best suggestion. I've never had an issue with that (and I'm on my second

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Jonathan Groll
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:14:26PM -0400, Jason Galarneau wrote: I have a net4801 that I'm building into a firewall for home use. With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current best practice for OpenBSD installs? I've tried flashdist, but don't see a compelling reason to

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Ralph Green
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 21:30 +0200, Joakim Aronius wrote: * Johan Huldtgren (johan+soek...@huldtgren.com) wrote: With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current best practice for OpenBSD installs? ... Agreed, from my point of view there is absolutely no need to do

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 25 May 2010 20:33:11 -0400, Johan Huldtgren wrote: Large flash cards are not really so affordable. The junk ones you get in most stores are certainly large enough. But, these are almost always MLC(multi-level cell) memory and die way too quickly. Used SLC cards up to 512 meg