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From: "Joshua Coombs" <jcoombs@gwi.net>
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Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:21:35 -0500
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I'm running with the Linksys USB100TX, booting off a 32MB CF card, all
filesystems and swap are done over nfs.  The linksys works good, no errors,
other than the random locks under load.  (Running NetBSD 1.6 or FreeBSD
5DP2)

I'll try to get 4.7 running tonight to see if that fares better

Joshua Coombs

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@comcast.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Joshua Coombs" <jcoombs@gwi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting?


> I have a working install of FBSD 4.7R running on a 340MB microdrive. It's
> not terribly fast, but it seems stable. My only problem is that the
> Netgear USB NIC craps out randomly after a few days, and FreeBSD doesn't
> really support the Linksys USB100TX, even though it claims to.
>
> I'd be interested to see your configuration, though. Once I find a fully
> supported USB NIC, I think I'm going to try and mount /usr and /usr/home
> from another system.
>
> Seth Henry
> jshamlet<AT>comcast<DOT>net
>
>



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