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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> There's a couple of ways you can do this.
>
> The first way is to build a small MFS kernel that has a compressed
> filesystem image in the MFS (geom_gzip / geom_ulzma) which is then
> booted from flash or network and runs entirely from RAM. I built a
> busybox style system using the rescue+crunchgen stuff to do exactly
> this kind of thing.
>
>
Feasibly using this method and your recent bsdbox MFS kernel sounds most
logical size/space wise
as Im looking to do this without a usb stick/flash. simply small wireless
ap/pf  is all. I also looked at the
nanobsd stuff ... I considered an MFS kernel / bsdbox / integrated and
nanobsdized, also i looked at
the bsd router project which is a nano based stripped image + including 2
packages. So it appears this
is probably the way ill go. During the process Ill document and post scripts
once i get a viable running
system. Sounds like it would also be secure as once its rebooted being mfs
all mods/changes go away
and the configuration once set is static so mfs would be ok.