Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:17:16 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Tony Li <tli@jnx.com> Cc: rls@mail.id.net, spork@super-g.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970711171713.00e01550@etinc.com>
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At 11:56 AM 7/11/97 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >Tony Li wrote: >> >> Yes, they are small, but even a 4MB card is plent to run routing services >> off of. There are several FreeBSD distributions out there that are >> "router floppies", where you fit everything you need onto a 1.4MB disk >> (except for gated, which is our problem). So you'd be in heaven with 4MB. >> >> Well, you're better than I am. ;-) In trying to get kernel, gated, basic >> Unix utilities, and remote access utilties (what, you wanna WALK to your >> router?) into a single place, I came up a wee bit bigger. >> >> In any case the flash disks run up to 190MB or so. Enough for a >> distribution, but not enough to have things vanilla. >> >> Tony > >Use 'crunch' like the boot floppy does. >you can fit almost the whole of /bin, and /usr/bin in 4MB using that. > You guys crack me up! I get more video and ethernet card failures that hard drive failures on a router........why not try to build one without a power supply....that will really increase your uptime! Most ppl can't keep freebsd up anywhere near as long as 1/10th the MTBF of an IDE drive, so what are you beating your brains out for? Dennis
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