From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 5 21:59:59 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 2D25B16A4CF for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:59:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0BF43D31 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:59:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (cpe-065-184-172-100.ec.rr.com [65.184.172.100])i85LxtSG017565; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <413B8C5F.4000800@ec.rr.com> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:59:59 -0400 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040808) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Henning References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:59:59 -0000 Brian Henning wrote: >Greetings: > >My goal is to make a minimal install of FBSD on a 256 MB sandisk memory card. I have a usb card reader and I was wondering if there exists any instructions on how to perform the install out on the web. I tried googling for it and found nothing useful. > >Any thoughts, > >Brian >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Feel free to put an os on flash, but not the swap partion. If you have enough ram you might not need it depending on what you are doing. Here is some info http://glozer.net/soekris/cf-install.html Looking at http://www.pretec.com/index2/product/SSD/IDE_Flash_Drive.htm the transfer speeds are very fast. Checking http://www.simpletech.com/flash/flash_prox.php will show reliability of write/erase endurance at 100,000 cycles. For data storage and just reading 1s and 0s flash lasts a very long time. Just don't write to them as a swap file or you could kill it real quick. For a flash drive like the usb san disk, it shows up just as a scsi. If you need a swap drive you should think about a md in ram or mount a fs after boot and make it sawp. Like an extra partion on a 80 gig drive. That is if you are going to take it to demo on windows pcs. If its for a diskless computer I would pop in an old spare ide or go with out a swap.