I'm doing pretty much exactly what you are proposing, except:
I'm running NetBSD instead.
I have a 40G laptop drive with the IDE bracket.
Beware that SSDs are sometimes thicker than laptop drives. I believe
that the 9.5mm drives are what fits in the case.
On the 5501 you can't boot
Same here, except FreeBSD running PF. Net5501 Love it! I've been running
it for over a year now.
Here are my specs:
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From Soekris:
1 x net5501-70 Board and 1 Slot standard
Case (10550170)
1 x 2.5 SATA hard drive mounting kit for
I have been running a 4801 running OpenBSD on a Sandisk camera grade
CF card for 5 years or so without issue. Run swapless and put var on
a ramdisk and you should be fine. I keep / mount ro to be on the safe
side but have
For what its worth, the limited CPU and RAM on the 4801 have never
been
* Brian Johnson brian.l.john...@gmail.com [2011-08-25 10:25:17]:
I have been running a 4801 running OpenBSD on a Sandisk camera grade
CF card for 5 years or so without issue. Run swapless and put var on
a ramdisk and you should be fine. I keep / mount ro to be on the safe
side but have
I've
On 8/24/11 07:55 , Michael Sierchio wrote:
If you *must* mount a CF-backed filesystem read-write, you do want to
minimize writes. Mount it rw,noatime. Use fifolog for logging and
the like. Don't use an ext3 filesystem, or any other logging
filesystem - the logging and metadata writes are
Hi there Todd;
If you're looking to build a BSD based router out of a Soekris box and
you're not really into hacking your own stuff these days, I highly
recommend you try out PFSense (http://pfsense.org)
It's a FreeBSD 8.x based routing/firewalling distribution. They have a
native Flash DD
Thanks again for all the comments and links. Sounds like I shouldn't
encounter any issues apart from the usual, well-documented installation
bumps.
I think I'll go ahead and order the upgraded 5501 - the extra $30 hardly
seems relevant if I get another 10 years out of this box like I did with
On 8/23/11 06:01 , Embedding Linux wrote:
Hello,
We got our net5501 up and running on Gentoo Linux, with a few troubles
here and there.
But we are getting filesystem corruption errors quite quickly, even
without significant fs activity. Error is usually
htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry
