From owner-freebsd-small Mon Mar 13 15:39:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B36837B62C for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA87353; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:39:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA40291; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:39:17 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003132339.QAA40291@harmony.village.org> To: chip@eboai.org Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.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> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:39:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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