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John Murphy wrote:

>"Andrew White" <andywhite@ntlworld.ie> wrote:
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>>You might want to try m0n0wall
>>http://www.m0n0.com/
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>I may do if I get a flashcard but it'll have to be an HD for now and
>I would like a full userland.  Looks a great project though.
>
m0n0wall will run from a HD aswell as a CD-ROM/Floppy

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>>You could forget having a hardrive at all and use a flashcard instead,
>>leaving you with no mechanical parts to fail... 
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>True but I've read that flashcards tend to fail after a lot of writes
>and I need storage space anyway...
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Thats true but if you load the system onto a ram disk you only have to 
read off the flashcard once at boot up......
another way is mount the filesystem etc. on it and point /tmp, /var and 
swap onto a ram drive (corse why point swap to a ram drive LOL)

basicly, minimize the need for the system to read/write (mainly write) 
to the flash card and you'll be fine.
google around for embedded, bsd, mini, etc.