From owner-freebsd-small Sat Feb 19 9: 6:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B6737BC5B for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 09:06:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id RAA01341; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:05:43 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] (eccles [194.32.164.2]) by seagoon.gid.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14736; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:43:01 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200002191111.MAA84547@info.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:43:02 +0000 To: Luigi Rizzo From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: success with compactflash cards! Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, At 12:11 +0100 19/2/00, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >i finally found the time to try a 16MB compactflash card using the >IDE adapters from TAPR (www.tapr.org). > >First -- it works! Me too :-), with a 4MB SanDisk. >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.[etc] I scratched my head for a bit on this one. Finally I put the flash in a FreeBSD box with an IDE disk, and spammed the first few blocks (10, IIRC) off the disk on to the flash using dd. Then I fixed up the fdisk and disklabel on the flash, newfs'd it and copied on (what would have been) the contents of the PicoBSD floppy (the files, not the disk image). That works fine. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message