Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:21:07 -0500 From: David <ddavid@ican.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ->NIC<- Compat and Reliability Message-ID: <01032614210701.00680@david.thecafe.ca> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326114451.00e78f00@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326114451.00e78f00@localhost>
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On Monday 26 March 2001 13:48, Brett wrote: > It has NO hard drive; it boots Linux from a CD-ROM. And it's a > brain dead version of Linux; you can't even get to a shell! I'm not really concerned about the lack of a hard drive, I guess i should have mentioned that to start, I'm looking for 10-15 wee little surfing boxes like this strickly for surfing (and cheap) and possibly setting up a server for file storage etc.. later on. So something to this effect would be ideal. as for a shell, according to this story here: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue82/4475.html it is possible to bring a shell and to check out the system and any editing that you would like to do. This story is how i came across the NIC in the first place. > Don't know how reliable the hardware is. It might possibly work with > FreeBSD, but you'd have to do a stripped-down PicoBSD-like kernel > for it. :-) this is the first thing that came across my mind reading up on it.... I think it would be fun trying to make up a bootable FreeBSD cdrom for this thing. With only 64MB of ram, I think possibly another 64MB's would be required, and with no hard drive, i guess some sort of "swap across the network" would be necessary, is this even possible? > If you're looking for small, simple boxes, there are likely to be > better ways to go. I'd dump the CD-ROM for a small hard disk > myself. I would imagine this would be the best way to go, mind you I was wondering if this might not be the "safest or securest way" when these boxes will be for a public surfing terminal. Maybe add a few more programs across the network if required along with file storage etc. Cheers David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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