From owner-freebsd-small Sun Sep 16 19:51:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AC737B408 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stealth.cary.dummynet ([66.26.231.240]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:33:32 -0400 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.cary.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8GNXAW26518 for small@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:33:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.cary.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:33:10 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: small@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <20010916193310.A26261@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A guy I know bought a Compaq Ipaq IA1 for a song and wants to try FreeBSD on it (Linux has problems with the ethernet card). Basically it has a 16 MB flash sandisk (i.e. virtual IDE hard disk), 16MB of mem, but no floppy. He can however yank the flash card, take it to a friends, and load it up via dd on a laptop. What is the best way to get FreeBSD up and running on this box? Is there a simple way to put a basic loader on the flash and then load everything (kernel, MFS root, etc.) via the ethernet? Thanks, Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com P.S. FWIW, here's the full hardware list: AMD K6-2/266 Cyberblade i7 VIA chipset 16mb Ram non upgradeable 16mb Flash Drive Sandisk 4 usb ports Audio Out Compact Flash Connector 10" Dual Scan 800x600 LCD screen (http://www.linux-hacker.net/ipaq/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message