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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:30:46 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        george@ceetonetechnology.com, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some ideas on Tim's script
Message-ID:  <D7D0805A-9386-4247-A1FA-5ED99CC08C34@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <E583F0D6-084A-4FF3-89F0-966897F15D09@kientzle.com>
References:  <51092D3A.4060608@ceetonetechnology.com> <E583F0D6-084A-4FF3-89F0-966897F15D09@kientzle.com>

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On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:24 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
>>=20
>> But first, with 8G images, I had to adjust the config.sh's SD_SIZE =
below 7900 for Kingston SD Cards to fit.  I can give more specifics if =
desired.  Anyone else experience that?
>=20
> I have a bunch of different SD cards around here -- different
> sizes, different manufacturers -- and I think every one is
> 50MB-100MB smaller than the advertised size.

8GB is 8,000,000,000 bytes. This 7812500kb or 7630MB.

>=20
>> And maybe to add the relevant ntpdate(8) settings to /etc/rc.conf.
>=20
> Has anyone tried running ntpdate from devd?  So that when/if
> the network interface initializes, ntpdate gets run at that point.
> That would avoid the tedious delay if there's no network at
> boot time.

I've never tried it...  Interesting idea...

Warner




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