Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:49:57 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netpliance I-Opener Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10003222346500.13926-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003221003480.38837-100000@hydrant.intranova.n et>
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I think my main curiousity here is how you can just barf the kernel onto the disk as described there and have it work. Don't you have to write a label or something? Once that's done it would just be a matter of building a kernel with the proper support and setting up an nfs server for the thing... Also, anyone aware of whether the USB controller in the unit is supported by 4.0? A USB-ethernet adapter seems to be the cheapest way to get the thing on the net at any decent speed. Thanks, Charles --- Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com --- On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Omachonu Ogali wrote: > http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#iopener_booted_with_netbsd > > You could probably follow the same steps and either install FreeBSD on a > 2.5" hard drive or you can boot up with PicoBSD (when it's fixed) instead. > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, spork wrote: > > > Anyone bought one of these to run FreeBSD? > > > > See http://www.netpliance.com for pics and all, Slashdot for all the Linux > > folks getting all excited over it > > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/11/1216231&mode=thread) and the > > page that started the whole thing: http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener > > > > If you've bought one, I'm curious about a few things: > > > > -what is the usb chipset? (is it supported?) > > -details on the 16M flashcard (bootable under FBSD?) > > > > I'm looking to set one up, but rather than throw a hard drive in it, just > > boot from flash and do everything else over nfs... > > > > Sorry if this is old news or if it's a raging topic elsewhere.. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charles > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > -- > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | > | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | > | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | > | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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