jm, I have two of those units. Is that the “embedded system” you are going to install NetBSD on? If so you definitely do not need a “stripped down” version. I have one running my pfsense firewall and it hardly breaks a sweat. The other has had NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and now DragonflyBSD installed on it. I have 8Gig of RAM and two hard drives installed. One thing I have to say, under FreeBSD it ran really hot. NetBSD 7.1 was installed with no problem and ran without incident for a good while and ran hot, but not where I needed mittens to handle it.
> On May 15, 2017, at 7:47 AM, r0ller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jukka, > > Well, I'm no expert in that but you may be interested in this video presented > by khorben and ask him: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdhHcMFpKo > > Best regards, > r0ller > > -------- Eredeti levél -------- > Feladó: Jukka Marin < [email protected] (Link -> > mailto:[email protected]) > > Dátum: 2017 május 15 11:39:07 > Tárgy: NetBSD on embedded devices > Címzett: [email protected] (Link -> mailto:[email protected]) > > Hello List, > I am considering using a stripped down NetBSD on an embedded system. > The system would boot from an SSD disk and the disk would be read-only > except for a separate data partition for sqlite. The system will have > httpd, sqlite, probably sshd, application software (one or more > binaries) but not much else. On hardware side, I will probably have > an x86 with "enough" RAM (a few gigabytes). > I'm wondering what would be the best way of system updates. I would > like to have two separate system images, one that is active and running > and another which can be updated. At boot time, the system would have > to check which image to boot from. (Or maybe I could use chroot or > some such to select the image to use.. or just mount one or the other.. > or use a virtual machine or.. ;-) > Does anyone have suggestions for a system like this? How to make > updates (via http) foolproof? > I might use something like this to start development: > http://www.qotom.net/goods-129-Q190G4+4+LAN+Mini+PC.html > Thanks! > -jm >
