Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Saturday 30 October 2004 07:45 pm, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? Not FreeBSD, but I have installed and used OpenBSD successfully. There are a few tricks involved in using the CF card. Here's my fstab listing - it may help get you started: $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,noaccesstime 1 1 # /dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=128000 0 0 /dev/wd0b /var mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,union,-s=128000 0 0 /dev/wd0g /usr ffs rw,nodev,noaccesstime 1 2 Check the soekris OpenBSD mailing list archives for more goodies. If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power consumption. Yep - that's the idea. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Oct 31, 2004, at 1:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd Thats nice too, but this is what I used and expanded upon for a project: http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? My current firewall is FreeBSD 5.3-beta7 running on a Celeron 700 with a pair of xl NICs running from a 128MB Compact Flash card via an IDE-CF convertor. I basically installed FreeBSD on a spare parition on my desktop, recompiled the kernel to remove stuff that I didn't need and copies directories like /usr, /bin etc over (very unscientific but I was in a rush and didn't have time to write a nice script to automate it yet). The CF card is mounted read only. rc.conf looks like this: hostname=gimli.middleearth ifconfig_xl0=DHCP ifconfig_xl1=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00 sshd_enable=YES varmfs=YES tmpmfs=YES populate_var=YES pf_enable=YES (unfortunately the stuff in the handbook regarding read only file systems is obsoleted by rcNG) and fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1a / ufs ro 0 0 You could very very easily fit it onto a 64MB CF card or maybe even 32 if you leave out some of the kernel modules, it just takes a bit more thought and time. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org pgpDmoIaTgW8P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Soekris engineering routers
LiQuiD wrote: Hi all, I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power consumption. I use Soekris boards with m0n0wall(http://m0n0.ch/wall/) there is also a m0n0BSD (http://m0n0.ch/bsd/) project that might be of interest to you. -Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soekris engineering routers
Hi all, I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power consumption. Thanks, Sandro M ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Oct 30, 2004, at 7:45 PM, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? You should download the Soekris email lists' archives and do a bit of research. Yes, FreeBSD can and does run well off a CF card. There are plenty of tricks one can perform using the FreeBSD source to optimize for that target such as linking (most) all executables to shared libraries rather than static. Might as well put / and /usr on the same filesystem (necessary for the shared library thing to work right all the time). Add noatime to your mount flags. And hack up most of the /etc/rc scripts so as to minimize writing to your limited-life CF media. Might be a good idea to make /var and /tmp as md filesystems. IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. Also look into picoBSD. IIRC this is where one puts most all needed files and binaries into one file image. Is how FreeBSD creates bootable install floppies. Make one with nothing but your router image and you might chose to boot the Soekris diskless off another FreeBSD machine. Its been almost 2 years since I last did these sorts of tricks. Started with MiniBSD and expanded. For a former employer so I don't have it to share. The Soekris products are solid and very good values. I think we had a few CPU's get too hot. Also I don't like to hear the oils on my finger sizzle when I touch a chip. So we glued big aluminum heatsinks to the CPU with special heatsink epoxy. Those heatsinks barely got warm in an unvented box. Our heatsinks blocked use of the PCMCIA slot, which we didn't use. Caution with the PCI slot, its 3.3 volt only. Hard to find a sound card which works at 3.3. We bought one big heatsink surplus. Then cut about 1.75 squares out of it with a bandsaw for use on the Soekris. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
