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Subject: Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a
 Soekris 4801
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Robert Watson wrote:

> While in San Francisco a week or two ago, Sam Leffler kindly handed me a 
> Soekris net4801 system.  After borrowing the necessary power parts from 
> Mark Murray here in Cambridge, and picking up a slightly overpriced 
> flash disk from a local electronics store, I decided I'd experiment some 
> with NanoBSD and see where it got me.  In particular, I wanted to 
> configure a DHCP/NAT/firewall box, and figured that this should be 
> relatively straight forward, as it's likely one of the most common uses 
> of embedded hardware of this type.

FYI, I spell this out in a little more detail, with file contents, at:

     http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/nanobsd/

Robert N M Watson