Yes it has changed, theres an option in the full install where you select the embedded kernel and choose grub as the boot method. I have 12 alix boards running on hitachi microdrives on full installs with packages, all of them work flawless. As far as noise they make no noise completely silent.
On Friday Mar 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 15.03.2008 um 00:07 schrieb Michel Servaes: > > > Hi, > > > > I am investigating a bit about m0n0wall & pfSense... to my > > knowledge, it seems that a CF card is not really a good medium to > > have many writes onto... so currently I am running m0n0wall for > > that reason. > > I know the embedded version of pfSense is comparable with m0n0wall > > (eg. loading into ramdisk etc) > > > > But let's assume I buy an ALIX board, and I put a Microdrive > > (instead of a CF-card), would I be able to install the complete > > image and not only the embedded version ??? > > I assume that I first have to install it on an ordinary pc (since > > the Alix won't support the LiveCD (and in fact a CDROM drive) to > > install it), and then put the Microdrive card into the CF-card slot > > of the Alix ??? > > > > My questions would be : > > > > - will the LiveCD-version function on an Alix board ? > > - is a MicroDrive better for read/write access > > - is a MicroDrive noisy ?? > > - would you recommend an Alix Board + Microdrive + pfSense full > > version + some packages (my preffered packages would be : ntop, > > iperf & imspector + eventually some proxying) > > > > > > > Last time I checked, you needed a slightly adapted kernel for that to > work (boot standard kernel on embedded hardware) because of the lack > of video or keyboard in the then WRAP boards. > Has this changed? > > Noise: I think the microdrive is next to silent. > > > > cheers, > Rainer > -- > Rainer Duffner > CISSP, LPI, MCSE > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
