Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:22 +0000 From: Chris Howells <howells@kde.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soekris engineering "routers" Message-ID: <200410311636.25945.howells@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <20041031004536.642F843D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041031004536.642F843D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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--nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, 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? My current firewall is FreeBSD 5.3-beta7 running on a Celeron 700 with a pa= ir=20 of xl NICs running from a 128MB Compact Flash card via an IDE->CF convertor= =2E=20 I basically installed FreeBSD on a spare parition on my desktop, recompiled= =20 the kernel to remove stuff that I didn't need and copies directories=20 like /usr, /bin etc over (very unscientific but I was in a rush and didn't= =20 have time to write a nice script to automate it yet). The CF card is mounted read only. rc.conf looks like this: hostname=3D"gimli.middleearth" ifconfig_xl0=3D"DHCP" ifconfig_xl1=3D"inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00" sshd_enable=3D"YES" varmfs=3D"YES" tmpmfs=3D"YES" populate_var=3D"YES" pf_enable=3D"YES" (unfortunately the stuff in the handbook regarding read only file systems i= s=20 obsoleted by rcNG) and fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pas= s# /dev/ad0s1a / ufs ro 0 0 You could very very easily fit it onto a 64MB CF card or maybe even 32 if y= ou=20 leave out some of the kernel modules, it just takes a bit more thought and= =20 time. =2D-=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org --nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBhRSJF8Iu1zN5WiwRAqWgAKCTs3u9IAP6PS9xHYMeboYGSA/XdwCfVKFd DH0PNsf4SINv8KYpCmscwSA= =OQMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8--
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