Not too sure that many minimal systems have samba installed, why wouldn't you use a hard disk... the main reason for using CF and flash is to remove any spinning parts and save power in a box that sits doing a job, file sharing needs disks so why not use disks?
Pebble Linux is the main CF one I've head recommended but it is mainly for routing and wireless stuff.. Dave. On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Michael Fox wrote: > Guys, > > Anyone had experience in producing a linux system that would run from > compact flash (say 128mb or 256mb compact flash card) that we could > use to say make a machine as a fileserver with samba, webmin etc... > > I know we have similar stuff around that makes a system a firewall > like smoothwall etc, but I was thinking it might be nice to make a > system that runs from compact flash that would allow you to boot from > and then format some drives to be used as samba storage. Or even raid > 0,1 those drives etc.. > > Maybe with time we could code in some nice web pages to manage minus > webmin, but who knows.. I just want to do something with a machine and > thought this would be a good idea. > > Anyone got pointers to read or want to help. > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
