Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:12:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Chuck TheMascot <freebsdfan@hotmail.com>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109222110550.65447-100000@www.kozubik.com> In-Reply-To: <200109221935.f8MJZ0743128@harmony.village.org>
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For a more refined translation of the commands that Warner just listed in his post (that I originally got from him anyway, over a long period of time) please see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/index.html This takes you through things in a very simple, step by step manner. ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <F262tTXrtfQyupGKy3h000026e7@hotmail.com> "Chuck TheMascot" writes: > : 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. > > The removable part makes it trivial. > > We use some custom scripts to create 32M and 64M parts all the time > with a CF adapter and desktop ISA card. > > With 4.4 you should be able to do something like: > make buildworld > fdisk -I ad8 > disklabel -rw ad8s1 auto > newfs /dev/ad8s1a > mount /dev/ad8s1a /mnt > setenv DESTDIR /mnt > cd /usr/src/etc > make distribution > cd .. > foreach i (dirs-of-interest) > (cd $i && make install) > done > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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