Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread digger
Its funny you should mention this as I am in the middle of doing exactly the same thing with an ALIX board from http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-alix2.php I installed the 2GB CF card in a card reader on my PC and booted off the CD and installed pfSense onto the card. I then inserted the card in

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:31:29PM +1000, digger wrote: The end result is I can confirm that the full version does happily run on a CF card and ALIX board. If this is a consumer flash device mounted r/w probability of failure will go up considerably after half a year, or so. Unfortunately,

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread Heribert Tockner
Am Donnerstag, den 24.07.2008, 13:53 +0200 schrieb Eugen Leitl: If this is a consumer flash device mounted r/w probability of failure will go up considerably after half a year, or so. Unfortunately, there's no CF card with wear-levelling hardware as far as I know. This is very different

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread David Barbero
Heribert Tockner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: Am Donnerstag, den 24.07.2008, 13:53 +0200 schrieb Eugen Leitl: If this is a consumer flash device mounted r/w probability of failure will go up considerably after half a year, or so. Unfortunately, there's no CF card with wear-levelling hardware

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:31:29PM +1000, digger wrote: The end result is I can confirm that the full version does happily run on a CF card and ALIX board. If this is a consumer flash device mounted r/w probability of

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread Tortise
to proactively pick up errors? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ? On Thu, Jul 24, 2008

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Michel Servaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to buy an Alix (or Wrap), and plug in a CF Harddisk. Would it be possible to push a full version (instead of the embedded ?). Yep. You have to use grub (check the box on the boot loader screen) to boot full