From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 30 19:30:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079EC14F22 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA53364; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:30:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Rowan Crowe Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using one FreeBSD box as router/firewall/vpn In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Rowan Crowe wrote: > > Sort of related... I've never actually tried to boot FreeBSD from the > flash IDE drive on this board because it only *emulates* an IDE drive via > software (ie BIOS calls), but on second thoughts I'm sure I've heard > mention that the boot process uses the BIOS to load in the kernel... is > this correct? It only has 4Mb so I'm not really sure how practical > actually *doing* anything after the kernel is loaded would be. ;-) I could > add on a HD for swap but that defeats the purpose entirely... > Yes the boot code does it's IO through the BIOS. Assuming teh flash bios emulates the low level calls and not just high level calls, it should be possible to put a PicoBSD floppy image on it and have it boot just fine. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message