From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 5 3:28:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163E937B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 03:28:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F383043EA9 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 03:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h05BRwTJ095850; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:27:58 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:27:58 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , "" Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom In-Reply-To: <20030105122146.C43208@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20030105142342.Y264@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20030102220350.5971.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> <20030105.001255.53237870.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030105122146.C43208@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: WB> > Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many WB> > _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major WB> > question: where to boot from? especially in the case of standalone WB> > moving-parts-free router ;-) WB> WB> You can boot from CompactFlash cards, they behave like IDE drives. Aha, that makes sense... But then, I suppose, one needs some IDE<->CF converting device... Would you point me to the resources 'bout them? I'm interested much as this scheme would allow us to build cheap and reliable remote routers at deep'n'far corners of our residential networks... You know, usually in totally unmaintainable corners ;-) Thanks in advance. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message