From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 22:48:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C3816A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsdhosting.net (bsdhosting.net [65.39.221.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19D9643D1F for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhopper@bsdhosting.net) Received: (qmail 52636 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2004 06:47:23 -0000 Received: from bsdhosting.net (HELO work.gusalmighty.com) (jhopper@bsdhosting.net@65.39.221.113) by bsdhosting.net with SMTP; 22 Jan 2004 06:47:23 -0000 From: Justin Hopper To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <400C0BFF.5070507@pio.dk> References: <400C0BFF.5070507@pio.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1074753830.1995.9.camel@work.gusalmighty.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:43:51 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD router on a USB flash drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:48:44 -0000 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 UNIX Systems Engineer BSDHosting.net Hosting Division of Digital Oasys Inc. http://www.bsdhosting.net