From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 5 5:56:50 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 7E4D937B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 05:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4614443E4A for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 05:56:48 -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 h05DuZTJ097035; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:56:35 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:56:35 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom In-Reply-To: <20030105134729.A43854@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20030105165407.Y96460@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> <20030105142342.Y264@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030105134729.A43854@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> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: WB> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: WB> > WB> > WB> > Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many WB> > WB> > _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major WB> > WB> > question: where to boot from? especially in the case of standalone WB> > WB> > moving-parts-free router ;-) WB> > WB> WB> > WB> You can boot from CompactFlash cards, they behave like IDE drives. WB> > WB> > Aha, that makes sense... But then, I suppose, one needs some IDE<->CF WB> > converting device... Would you point me to the resources 'bout them? WB> WB> http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fcfa.html WB> WB> is what I have. Just remember one thing: in IDE-mode the CF cards can WB> *not* be hotplugged! Yeah, thanks, just have found some at Google. Unfortunately, none of these devices seem to be easily available here in RU, but we'll try to workaround this ;-) Hotplug unavailability is not of great sense since in situation described CF would be the only ATAPI device in whole system. Thanks again for your help. 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