Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:39:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: chip@eboai.org Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Message-ID: <200003132339.QAA40291@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:26:07 EST." <20000313182607.A36079@hindenburg.eboai.org> References: <20000313182607.A36079@hindenburg.eboai.org>
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In message <20000313182607.A36079@hindenburg.eboai.org> Chip Marshall writes: : I was just reading up on the Netpliance Iopeners, and how people : having been hacking at them to get them to stop running weird QNX : things and putting in HD's with Linux and BeOS and whatnot. I was : wondering if anyone had tried putting PicoBSD into the systems ample : supply of 16MB of flash ram. It seems like a good little project, : though with 16MB it isn't much of a challenge for Pico... : : At any rate, the specs on the things are at http://www.netpliance.com/ : with some useful information at http://iopener.scizzors.net/ and : http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ : : I'm planning on getting one soon and trying to put FreeBSD on it, I'll : let the list know how it turns out if there is any interest... Looks likeit will not be a rpoblem at all to run FreeBSD on one of these babies. You'll need some way to program the CF that sits in the slave IDE slot of the primary IDE bus on the mobo. One can do this with a 2.5" IDE drive with a custom cable. (you have to swap 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc: 1- -1 X 2- -2 3- -3 X 4- -4 And you'll need to use a USB Ethernet to talk to the network. And you'll have to find one. There are none to be had in the Denver area, for example. :-( Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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