From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 09:17:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E14C16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:17:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (cromagnon.cullmail.com [67.33.58.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA17643D2F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:17:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: from cromagnon.cullmail.com (localhost.cullmail.com [127.0.0.1]) i9V9EIOL059853; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 03:14:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jamoore@cromagnon.cullmail.com) Received: by cromagnon.cullmail.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9V9EHKV059852; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 03:14:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jamoore) From: Jay Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:14:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20041031004536.642F843D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041031004536.642F843D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410310314.16259.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> cc: LiQuiD Subject: Re: Soekris engineering "routers" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:17:59 -0000 On Saturday 30 October 2004 07:45 pm, LiQuiD wrote: > > I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com > in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact > flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a > hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one > of those boxes using a compact flash card? Not FreeBSD, but I have installed and used OpenBSD successfully. There are a few "tricks" involved in using the CF card. Here's my fstab listing - it may help get you started: $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,noaccesstime 1 1 # /dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=128000 0 0 /dev/wd0b /var mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,union,-s=128000 0 0 /dev/wd0g /usr ffs rw,nodev,noaccesstime 1 2 Check the soekris & OpenBSD mailing list archives for more goodies. > If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple > clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power > consumption. Yep - that's the idea. Jay