I'm setting up a firewall/router based on a WRAP 1.E board. This means
I need to install OpenBSD onto a Compact Flash (CF) card. The easiest
way to do this seems to be to attach the CF card to my existing OpenBSD
system (Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T41p) and do the install there.
[I know about flashboot and flashdist, but even a "small"
(by today's standards) 1GB CF has plenty of space for a
standard install, so I plan to just 'make release' on the
Thinkpad and then tweak to put /var and /dev on a memory
filesystem so the CF can be remounted readonly after boot.]
Question: What are the relative merits of
(a) a USB Compact Flash card reader/writer, versus
(b) a PCMCIA Compact Flash adaptor?
for making the Thinkpad talk to the Compact Flash card?
i386.html lists support for
> PC Cards (PCMCIA/CardBus (B))
> * ATA cards (wdc, wd, sd, cd), including:
[[...]]
> o CF/ATA flash cards and disk drives
which I interpret as describing (b). But I'm less certain about (a)...
thanks, ciao,
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