From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 16 13:47:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from thunderer.cnchost.com (thunderer.concentric.net [207.155.252.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A00C37BCCB for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:46:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@wrchq.com) Received: from loneranger (ts006d24.por-or.concentric.net [206.173.161.36]) by thunderer.cnchost.com id QAA09839; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:46:47 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.8] Message-ID: <00ca01bf8f90$cf00ec30$fc8b898b@silver.net> Reply-To: "Tim Dysinger" From: "Tim Dysinger" To: Cc: "Warner Losh" References: <000701bf8f70$2c4b8880$fc8b898b@silver.net> <200003161807.LAA96019@harmony.village.org> Subject: Iopener FreeBSD 4 SanDisk install Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:44:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My goal is to put FreeBSD 4.0 on the IOpener SanDisk with a minimal read-only kernel + MFS and mount a shared /usr over a NetGear EA101 USB network adaptor. I would like to run NFS, NIS and DHCP for central admining of a dozen of these machines. I want to do something similar to Luigi Rizzo's setup ( http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/diskless.html ) Is this a feasable setup? Things for me to grasp still have mostly to do with kernel+MFS, SanDisk and how best to slap it on there so it is bootable: A. SanDisk slicing, minimal installation and the SanDisk MBR? (is there an equivalent to LILO w/ fbsd?) B. Custom 4.0 kernel config options for SanDisk and NetGear USB ethernet (and maybe the Yamaha YMF715 onboard sound?) C. Is there some special /dev entries for the SanDisk and USB ethernet? D. Hopefully elminate writing to the SanDisk (mount /var over the network? or turn /var writing off? put /var in a 2-4MB MFS?) I don't need hand holding, but I could use some pointers on were to find the M in RTFM.... ;) Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message