From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 03:11:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2A716A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:11:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E78D43D58 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:11:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (trini0.org[65.34.205.195]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004082503114001200p6ujpe>; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:11:41 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.3]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D86B14F; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:11:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <412C0375.8030205@trini0.org> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:11:49 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040812) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Taylor References: <412A8EA0.3020401@trini0.org> <412AC230.4010203@trini0.org><412B4221.5000501@trini0.org> <1093389272.28319.19.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> In-Reply-To: <1093389272.28319.19.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsdquestions Subject: Re: Embedded freebsd How to? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:11:42 -0000 Murray Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 23:26, Gerard Samuel wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: >> >>>On Monday 23 August 2004 11:21 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Andrew L. Gould wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Monday 23 August 2004 07:41 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Well I've been using FBSD since 3.4, and I would like to >>>>>>try my hand at trying to put together an embedded FBSD system. >>>>>>I browsed the -small mailing list, but there doesnt seem to be >>>>>>any relevant up to date data there (I may be mistaken). >>>>>>I did a bit of googling, but Im not finding what Im looking >>>>>>for. >>>>>>I kept running into "Embedded FreeBSD Cookbook". Anyone thoughts >>>>>>on this book. >>>>>>But other than that, are there any online how to tutorial, >>>>>>that would show an almost beginner on how to get started. >>>>>> >>>>>>Thanks for any input you may provide... >>>>> >>>>>Go to http://soekris.com/ and click on Support. You'll find some >>>>>tutorials on installing FreeBSD on their embedded boards. One of >>>>>the tutorials is "miniBSD - reducing FreeBSD". >>>>> >>>>>Also, Michael Lucas has an article on installing OpenBSD on one of >>>>>their boards: >>>>>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html >>>>> >>>>>Best of luck, >>>> >>>>Seems my options are limited, but thanks for the links... >>> >>> >>>I don't think you're options are limited. These are just examples that >>>have come to the attention of someone who does NOT do embedded stuff. >>> >>> >> >>Understood. What I meant by "limited" was that it seems (with respect >>to hardware), it seems like the hardware side of things isn't as >>widespread as I thought it would have been (compared to *normal* >>hardware, aka AT/ATX etc). >>I was previously aware of soekris through mOrOwall (which gave me the >>idea of putting one together myself). >>But then again, I've only begun searching yesterday, so what do I know :) >> >>Thanks once again... > > miniBSD runs fine on the Advantech WEB-2143 (and probably also on the > later cousins). We run it in 14Mb of a 32Mb CF card as a bridging > firewall among other things. > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > for the 'recipe' .. be very aware of the static / dynamic libraries > on the development box .. sigh > Thanks. I got the Advantech page bookmarked. After some searching around, I came across this -> http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.jsp as a platform. So the research continues...