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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:15:49 -0600
From: Jeff Hinrichs <jlh@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Soekris engineering "routers"
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LiQuiD wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
> in the list now.  Their website claims they can be used with a compact
> flash card.  I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
> hard drive.  Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one
> of those boxes using a compact flash card?
> 
> If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple
> clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power
> consumption.
> 

I use Soekris boards with m0n0wall(http://m0n0.ch/wall/) there is also a 
m0n0BSD (http://m0n0.ch/bsd/) project that might be of interest to you.

-Jeff