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Date:      Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:15:16 +0200
From:      "Jan Augusta" <jan.augusta@fifejdy.cz>
To:        "Aleksandr Rybalko" <ray@ddteam.net>, "Juli Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        mips@FreeBSD.org, jan.augusta@fifejdy.cz
Subject:   Re: How to compile and install Freebsd to Routerstation PRO
Message-ID:  <20120402091516.8e695f89@tchuza>
In-Reply-To: <20120402005626.b27929c0.ray@ddteam.net>

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Hello, =20
your docs are very fine ;) =20
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I succesfully install FreeBSD on RSPRO ;) =20
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But, there is problem with writing changes to flash. When I change /etc/=
rc.conf and reboot system no changes was saved :( =20
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Are anywhere ports to install such as quagga, iperf, mc, snmpd, trafshow=
, etc=3F =20
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Thanks

Jan
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  From: Aleksandr Rybalko [mailto:ray@ddteam.net]
To: Juli Mallett [mailto:jmallett@FreeBSD.org]
Cc: jan.augusta@fifejdy.cz, mips@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:56:26 +0200
Subject: Re: How to compile and install Freebsd to Routerstation PRO

On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:33:29 -0700
Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 14:30, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:18:09 -0700
> > Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jan,
> >>
> >> Do you want to boot the RS Pro from network, or from NAND=3F  If fr=
om
> >> network, there are probably instructions elsewhere that would be
> >> more useful, and hopefully someone else knows where to link to (I
> >> don't.)
> >>
> >> If you want to boot from NAND, things get a little tricky.  FreeBSD
> >> doesn't have usable NAND support yet, so you'll have to boot Linux
> >> to copy the kernel to NAND flash, and you'll have to erase NAND
> >> from the bootloader before doing that otherwise Linux may place
> >> the FreeBSD kernel outside of the range that RouterBOOT is willing
> >> to read from. Also, you kernel has to be under 4MB big for the
> >> same reason.
> >
> > IIRC RSPro have 16M of NOR flash (cfi driver), not NAND :)
>=20
> Yes, you should ignore me. I had a massive brain-related failure. My
> answers were about RB450G, the original question was about RS Pro.
> Sorry for the noise =E2=80=94 that's what I get for using both :)
>=20
> Someone else can say how to setup RS Pro. Luckily lots of people have
> those and it sucks a lot less :)

Yep, it is why we doing zrouter :)
http://zrouter.org/

Jan, let me know if something not so clear to understand in our docs.

WBW
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Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
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