From owner-freebsd-small Thu Sep 20 8:29:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f262.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.8.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0D237B40A for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:29:44 -0700 Received: from 24.9.137.53 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:29:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.9.137.53] From: "Chuck TheMascot" To: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from Flash Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:29:44 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Sep 2001 15:29:44.0421 (UTC) FILETIME=[12F36150:01C141E9] Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just reread your message this time I noticed that the flash is a *removeable* CF card! Too cool. If the laptop runs FreeBSD and recognizes the CF card it should be a piece of cake ! If you run out of room in the 16mb for X, just buy a bigger CF card. Frys has 128mb CF cards for around $75. Does the IA-1 have a fan ? One thing that is (was) nice about the I-Opener is that it's completely slient. >A guy I know bought a Compaq Ipaq IA1 for a song and wants to try FreeBSD >on it (Linux has problems with the ethernet card). > >Basically it has a 16 MB flash sandisk (i.e. virtual IDE hard disk), 16MB >of mem, but no floppy. He can however yank the flash card, take it to a >friends, and load it up via dd on a laptop. > >What is the best way to get FreeBSD up and running on this box? >Is there a simple way to put a basic loader on the flash and then load >everything (kernel, MFS root, etc.) via the ethernet? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message