On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote: > Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would > like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the > board can boot from a CF card, and my question is whether can I create > an ext3fs partition on the CF, mount it on / and use it as if I had a > normal IDE/SATA drive? Or do I have to boot from a filesystem image in > read-only mode?
Yes and no (in that order). To the Soekris comBIOS the CF is just an IDE drive, and you can format/partition/mount it any way you like. If you don't need to store excessive amounts of data and you can live with not-very-hot write speeds during installations and updates/upgrades, a CF card is in fact a much more practical thing than a real HDD, if only because you can get about 12 of them for the price of 1 HDD;). It depends on the application you have in mind. For a router, the CF is perfect, for a DB backend server it most likely isn't. Maintaining a swap partition is also not a viable option with a CF card. Bill > > Thanks, > Oleg. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
