Date: 26 Feb 2001 12:29:08 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> To: wes peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ThinkNIC booting FreeBSD? [WAS: Re: Silent FreeBSD] Message-ID: <3A4CC308.9A3F092C@softweyr.com> References: <3A4B7498.267D52E8@softweyr.com> <005801c07037$47ae6ea0$0402010a@biohz.net> <200012281812.LAA95895@harmony.village.org>
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In message <3A4B7498.267D52E8@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > We have several NIC's around here (the New Internet Computer, see > http://www.thinknic.com/ for details) and will be adding a couple of these > so we can boot FreeBSD or NetBSD on them in the next little while. A NIC > running FreeBSD on a silent CF disk strikes me as an ideal bedroom computer; > you can leave it on all the time and just let the screen sleep when you're > not using it. Been thinking seriously about buying a couple of these; hard to beat the $200 price point. Chat on one of the NIC lists indicates they had two fans and will now ship with three fans; this seems like it will make it rather noisey -- especially since they're diskless and should be quiet. Since I prefer FreeBSD to Linux, I'd rather run BSD than the Linux on the CD it runs from. Is it possible to create an ISO of a bootable and runnable FreeBSD? What happens with stuff like /tmp and /var/log? Failing this, I'd probably net-boot the NICs off a bigger FreeBSD machine, and NFS mount /home dirs and /usr/local type of software. That way when I built a tool or package it would be available to any of the FreeBSD boxes in the house. Seems like a great bang/buck ratio. Any comments on this approach? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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