From owner-freebsd-small Sat Feb 19 3:11:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A49D37BBC0 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 03:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA84547 for small@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:11:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200002191111.MAA84547@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: success with compactflash cards! To: small@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:11:37 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, i finally found the time to try a 16MB compactflash card using the IDE adapters from TAPR (www.tapr.org). First -- it works! Second (and the reason of this email): i tried to find an easy way to install PicoBSD on the flash, but could not find one. My idea was to use /stand/sysinstall the same way i do with HDs -- install booteasy on the flash, then define a couple of partitions, one of which is the size of the floppy image, and then cat the image to the partition. Unfortunately, after this booteasy shows the F1 prompt but seems unable to boot. I am unsure if this is a result of the geometry of the flash (490/2/32 -- maybe booteasy needs the full 63-sectors which are on each track on all my other disks ?) or something else -- anyways, i ended up just catting the floppy image at the beginning of the flash, then boot from a floppy, use fdisk to put the right size in the first partition. This is, i think, similar to the "dangerously dedicated mode". Any ideas on better ways to produce an image that i can copy to the flash ? cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message