Aha, that makes sense... But then, I suppose, one needs some IDE-CF
converting device... Would you point me to the resources 'bout them?
We use a cf - ide adapter from adtron. Its not the cheapest out there,
but it fits in 3 1/2 drive bay, and offers access to the card from outside the
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:06:26AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how
many : _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least
one major : question: where to boot from? especially in the case of
standalone
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:06:26AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how
many : _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least
one major : question: where to boot from? especially in the case of
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
MWL : CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest
MWL : booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and
MWL : mounting the partitions read-only?
MWL
MWL It is usually the case that solid-state media, properly
M. Warner Losh wrote:
: CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest
: booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and
: mounting the partitions read-only?
[ ... ]
I'd suspect that cdrom drives will break more often than hard disks in
harsh environments.
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:12:55AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Quoth Joe on Thu, Jan 02, 2003:
: I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why,
: well longs story, the shot version is it
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:13:33PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
MWL : CD-ROM is not what I would call a reliable media. May I suggest
MWL : booting from the network (PXE) or booting from a hard disk and
MWL : mounting the partitions read-only?
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
WB Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many
WB _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major
WB question: where to boot from? especially in the case of standalone
WB moving-parts-free
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
WB Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many
WB _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major
WB question: where
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Dmitry Morozovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many
: _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major
: question: where to boot from? especially in the
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
WB On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
WB On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
WB
WB WB Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how
many
WB WB _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
Aha, that makes sense... But then, I suppose, one needs some IDE-CF
converting device... Would you point me to the resources 'bout them?
http://www.mesanet.com
http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart
The CF-to-IDE adapters are really cheap, $20 or
At 03/01/2003, you wrote:
Unfortunately freeSBIE seems to require buildworld. I'm not
sure if they have a downloadable version.
Try here:
http://www.sm.freebsd.org/it/gufi/freesbie/
It is not the last version but it is an ISO :-)
You can get the last iso from the slow, adsl link in the main
Thanks, but I have a cd up and running now with dns. The iso at
freeSBIE seems to be more to run X or something.
I just want to have the machine do 4 things caching
nameserver(does it), ssh from localnet to box, and natd
router(does this too), console access.
At this point it does all but
Quoth Joe on Thu, Jan 02, 2003:
I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why,
well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be
turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part
will take longer, but the off is just hit the button).
CD-ROM is not
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Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Quoth Joe on Thu, Jan 02, 2003:
: I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why,
: well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be
: turned off and on like a lite switch. (I
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom.
[..]
As somebody else already mentioned, try www.freesbie.org. It is based on
another project that seems stalled, livecd.
Works fine, the development team is italian but we do understand
Hello,
I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why,
well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be
turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part
will take longer, but the off is just hit the button). When I
release this box it will have no
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:50PM -0800, Joe wrote:
Without building the entire FreeBSD distro how do I make my
own boot.flp file and what goes on it?
See if this article can help you:
Building a CD Bootable Firewall
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html
--
Craig Rodrigues
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Joe wrote:
I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. Why,
well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to be
turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on part
will take longer, but the off is just hit the button). When I
release
Thanks, but that was actually one of the articles I had already
read.
It suggests taking the boot.flp image from 4.4-RELEASE and just
using your own boot0, loader.4th and kernel.gz.
When I did that I ended up with the system booting, but it
complained about a missing something(I cannot
through
the script the author writes, it mentions the creation of a loader.rc file.
I'm hoping this will work. Good luck,
matt
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From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: freebsd running on a cdrom
Hello
: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: freebsd running on a cdrom
Hello,
I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom.
Why,
well longs story, the shot version is it needs to be able to
be
turned off and on like a lite switch. (I understand the on
part
will take
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