On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 17:16, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > On the subject of small distro's like DSL. Anyone know if they can operate > on Compact flash or similar memory cards? Just thinking if you a writable > media like a CF card holding your distro as well as offering storage space, > might be kind of interesting.
I run OpenBSD on a soekris box from CF. You can get cheap adaptors (<$20) for laptop and desktop computers and voila! it's an IDE disk :) You can easily fit just about any distribution of linux or bsd onto a cheap CF card with a little bit of work. The only pitfalls I've seen are getting the boot loaders to work properly, and the fact that flash has an inherent limit to the number of write cycles. You have to make sure that the CF card is mounted read-only when in operation (log to a remote machine or ram drive) - and you can't swap to it or you'll kill it in a month. It's greatly reliable if mounted readonly though, as there are no moving parts. Combine it with a mini-itx via fanless board if you have some $$$ to blow and you have a completely fanless + low power firewall with no moving parts to fail so easily. It's a killer combination! -- Brent Graveland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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