From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 16:36:45 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 BD4AE16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (mail.devrandom.org.uk [84.92.10.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195F443D41 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (frodo [192.168.1.8]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E17325631D for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:37:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([192.168.1.8]) by localhost (frodo.devrandom.org.uk [192.168.1.8]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48444-04 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.176] (unknown [192.168.1.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AAFC256258 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20041031004536.642F843D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041031004536.642F843D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410311636.25945.howells@kde.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Subject: Re: Soekris engineering "routers" 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: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:36:45 -0000 --nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote: > I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com > in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact > flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a > hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one > of those boxes using a compact flash card? My current firewall is FreeBSD 5.3-beta7 running on a Celeron 700 with a pa= ir=20 of xl NICs running from a 128MB Compact Flash card via an IDE->CF convertor= =2E=20 I basically installed FreeBSD on a spare parition on my desktop, recompiled= =20 the kernel to remove stuff that I didn't need and copies directories=20 like /usr, /bin etc over (very unscientific but I was in a rush and didn't= =20 have time to write a nice script to automate it yet). The CF card is mounted read only. rc.conf looks like this: hostname=3D"gimli.middleearth" ifconfig_xl0=3D"DHCP" ifconfig_xl1=3D"inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00" sshd_enable=3D"YES" varmfs=3D"YES" tmpmfs=3D"YES" populate_var=3D"YES" pf_enable=3D"YES" (unfortunately the stuff in the handbook regarding read only file systems i= s=20 obsoleted by rcNG) and fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pas= s# /dev/ad0s1a / ufs ro 0 0 You could very very easily fit it onto a 64MB CF card or maybe even 32 if y= ou=20 leave out some of the kernel modules, it just takes a bit more thought and= =20 time. =2D-=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org --nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBhRSJF8Iu1zN5WiwRAqWgAKCTs3u9IAP6PS9xHYMeboYGSA/XdwCfVKFd DH0PNsf4SINv8KYpCmscwSA= =OQMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5235011.ETLoLTe7H8--