Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:08:51 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: Luiz de Barros <luiz@nlink.com.br>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: DISKLESS and FLOPPYLESS remote serial boot. Message-ID: <199808132005.KAA21830@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813150750.11541A-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> References: <199808131714.KAA00775@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On 13 Aug 98, at 15:09, Luiz de Barros wrote: > Dear Mike and All, > > Thanks for the reply. > Where can i find these cards? How Much for 2MB? > > They would work with FreeBSD > as if it was a floppy disk? There are several options: 1. IDE Flash modules from Sandisk, http://www.sandisk.com. Their flash disks emulate an IDE hard drive. This is the simplist method since PicoBSD see this as a standard IDE hard drive. I have been able to get PicoBSD to boot from this with only a few changes to some startup script files. You can also mount the IDE flash to update config files. 2. BIOS Flash drives, check out M-Systems, http://www.m-sys.com. This type emulates a hard drive only thru BIOS calls. PicoBSD should be able to boot from it but once the kernel is running it won't be able to see the drive. You will need to modify PicoBSD to have all of its files in the MFS. You will also need to create a DOS program to write the PicoBSD image to flash, since there is no way to access the BIOS flash from PicoBSD directly. (there is work being done to make BIOS calls from the kernel in 3.0-current, but it is not done yet. When it becomes available it will allow you to mount it as a file system.) Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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