Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:33:10 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: small@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <20010916193310.A26261@nc.rr.com>
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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
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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/)
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