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From: Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
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Subject: Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?
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Pete French wrote:
> Any suggestions, or words of wisdom from anyone who has done someething
> similar themselevs in the past ?
>   

The ASUS EeePC 701 is cheap as chips and can easily be mass-flashed with 
NanoBSD images from a USB dongle.
I wrote a reflash script  but didn't release it -- it just takes the USB 
dongle image and dumps it on the internal SSD with the appropriate fixups.

cheers,
BMS