Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:46:45 +0100 From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going small Message-ID: <lo8r70tbn3mfq5cg2hdbv2i7bkg7tf4st7@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <407D88BA.80200@nbritton.org> References: <3a8q70tlt97mcr8llt61ff158gtudful25@4ax.com> <20040414155534.GJTI1202.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@deskgx> <pfvq701tp6kq30n6q5bad331ig821evjjr@4ax.com> <407D88BA.80200@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote: >m0n0wall will run from a HD aswell as a CD-ROM/Floppy Sure, but I'll be happier with the (becoming more) familiar full =46reeBSD and may even try current :| The php/XML speak was foreign to me too. >>True but I've read that flashcards tend to fail after a lot of writes >>and I need storage space anyway... >> >Thats true but if you load the system onto a ram disk you only have to=20 >read off the flashcard once at boot up...... Good point. I'll definitely try it (or pico) when I get a flashcard. >another way is mount the filesystem etc. on it and point /tmp, /var and=20 >swap onto a ram drive (corse why point swap to a ram drive LOL) I may even try swap on a ram drive just to see what happens :) It's only got 128MB though so I hope to keep as much of it available as possible for the applications. Though I guess /tmp and /var shouldn't grow much with no X running. Definitely a custom Kernel. Speaking of which; I ventured into OpenBSD land recently and was surprised by the size of the kernel compared to Free's GENERIC. But that's another story... >basicly, minimize the need for the system to read/write (mainly write)=20 >to the flash card and you'll be fine. >google around for embedded, bsd, mini, etc. Will do, thanks. --=20 John.
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