Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:43:51 -0800 From: Justin Hopper <jhopper@bsdhosting.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router on a USB flash drive? Message-ID: <1074753830.1995.9.camel@work.gusalmighty.com> In-Reply-To: <400C0BFF.5070507@pio.dk> References: <400C0BFF.5070507@pio.dk>
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On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 08:55, Christoffer Pio wrote: > Hello all, has anyone experience with booting from, and running a FreeBSD > based router on a USB 2.0 flash drive? I'm really curious what brought you to the situation of needing to boot from a flash drive for a router? =) I picked up a USB 2.0 flash drive (128MB) for transferring files around between workstations and I really like its convenience. I formatted the drive in FreeBSD 5.1 and installed the standard boot loader. It took me a while to find a box with a new enough BIOS to be able to use the flash drive as a boot option, but I finally found one and was able to get to the boot loader. However, 128MB didn't seem to be enough space to do a minimum install so I was not able to install 5.1 on it and boot from it. I didn't have the time to try to see if I could trim down the install further, so this was as far as I got. I assume with a larger flash drive it is completely possible. As to why you would want to do it, I'm still not sure =) -- Justin Hopper <jhopper@bsdhosting.net> UNIX Systems Engineer BSDHosting.net Hosting Division of Digital Oasys Inc. http://www.bsdhosting.net
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