Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:29:44 -0700 From: "Chuck TheMascot" <freebsdfan@hotmail.com> To: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <F262tTXrtfQyupGKy3h000026e7@hotmail.com>
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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
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