Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:37:43 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remaining goal.. . Message-ID: <20110406013743.GA5075@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <1C353B4FD531C567D2DF42CD@Mac-Pro.local> References: <20110402214312.GA3848@thought.org> <AANLkTi=1KCxMpEbk5rFcDwi_XG__j0UK73_Ftaz-s3UE@mail.gmail.com> <20110402235654.GE4792@thought.org> <BANLkTin29Z=RPPxRXiJqZJof3fOBhgkDwQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110404233904.GC13182@thought.org> <4D9AF219.1030105@qeng-ho.org> <20110405180519.GA27662@thought.org> <1C353B4FD531C567D2DF42CD@Mac-Pro.local>
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:21:13PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of April 5, 2011 11:05:19 AM -0700, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: > > > It is a Alix 601 board with 1G of CF flash. But according to my > > hardware friend, it will take a CF burner of some kind. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > I'm going to assume you mean the Alix 6e1, which is the closest I > can find in their numbering system. 6E1, yes. Sorry; it was last December. My friend was going to drop by , but cancelled and was back in school before he remembered. > > It's got a standard CF adaptor. (*All* the Alix's do.) If there's > a card in it, pull it off and insert into any CF reader, and it > should work fine. (USB-based ones typically sell for $20, including > SD, XD, MMC, Memorystick, and probably a few others as well. Check > Best Buy, or your local computer hardware store, or possibly a > camera store.) Then follow Arthur's advice. The CF card may be a > little awkward to pull off. > > If the card that's in there is some special card that needs some > exotic burner... When you are at the computer store spend another > $5 or so and get yourself a new card. > I asked the pfSense forum if I had enough memory and they said yes. Wghat I've got should be fine assuming that everything is put together correctly. My physical disabilities limit what i can do myself--that's the catch; it is why I have to ask favors. I'll save your mail just in case my friend gets off-track for some reason. Shouldn't. It is how he is putting himself thru college this time. ---What I want is to be drawing as few watts as _possible_. Especially since I have two tower cases going 24*7. Plus the firewall Beast. :: be nice to get down to some min footprint and get that much further into the green-zone! -g > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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