RE: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-12 Thread James Mansion
:Is Dragonfly easy to configure for readonly root? Sure. How do you think the CD boots ? I didn't say 'can it' I said 'easy'. Is it a) documented and b) trivial - or is it one of these 'work through the rc scripts in the boot process yourself and work it out' jobs? Sort of thing I'm

RE: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
::Is Dragonfly easy to configure for readonly root? : :Sure. How do you think the CD boots ? : :I didn't say 'can it' I said 'easy'. Is it a) documented :and b) trivial - or is it one of these 'work through the :rc scripts in the boot process yourself and work it out' :jobs? : :Sort of thing

RE: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-12 Thread James Mansion
Well, you can always boot single-user (boot -s). The root filesystem will be mounted read-only and no service will be started. That wasn't quite what I had in mind either, though thank you for your time. Have you looked at Puppy linux or SLAX (or the linux-live scripts?) These make it

Re: RE: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-08 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:32:35PM +0100, James Mansion wrote: The CF card just looks like an ATA disk to the OS, so it should just run fine. I have a bunch of ATA-to-CF converters which I use for diskless applications, they appear as /dev/ad0. Is Dragonfly easy to configure for readonly

RE: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-07 Thread James Mansion
The CF card just looks like an ATA disk to the OS, so it should just run fine. I have a bunch of ATA-to-CF converters which I use for diskless applications, they appear as /dev/ad0. Is Dragonfly easy to configure for readonly root? Matt's rc.initdiskless is still there in FreeBSD 6.1, but

RE: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Is Dragonfly easy to configure for readonly root? Sure. How do you think the CD boots ? -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dmitri Nikulin wrote: How many CF-based embedded devices does DragonFly actually run on? The CF card just looks like an ATA disk to the OS, so it should just run fine. I have a bunch of ATA-to-CF converters which I use for diskless applications, they appear as /dev/ad0. I also have an SBC

OT: embedded arm (was: Re: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls)

2006-08-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Oliver Fromme wrote: The main advantage of NetBSD in that area is that it runs on many non-i386 processors, such as ARM, which are very common in small embedded devices (and cheap if ordered in large quantities). I wonder how powerful an arm7/arm9 needs to be to play mp3s and oggs from

SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-07-31 Thread Joseph Garcia
I came across this product that I figured some of you might be interested in especially if you're buiding embedded firewall boxes with DragonFlyBSD. It's an SATA to Compact Flash device. It mounts in the front or the back of the PC. Seems pretty neat. Here's the product link:

Re: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-07-31 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On 8/1/06, Joseph Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came across this product that I figured some of you might be interested in especially if you're buiding embedded firewall boxes with DragonFlyBSD. It's an SATA to Compact Flash device. It mounts in the front or the back of the PC. Seems pretty