Hi Oleg, On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:10 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote: > Bill Maas wrote: > > 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;). > > > Right, thank you for the reply - the main point is that it looks like > an IDE device and can be partitioned like one. This is going to be a > replacement router (iptables, openvpn) and I want to be able to run > "apt-get install ..." on the box. The Debian install will be > configured with no swap. > > The next thing that I need to figure out is how to get /var into its > own (cramfs?) filesystem and flush it to disk when the box reboots. > Has anyone tried this type of thing?
With OpenBSD that's very easy, in fact it's practically pre-done for you;). For Linux, this might point you in the right direction: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4540125636.html I have good experiences with rsync for flushing /var's contents at shutdown, but you will probably have to set that up yourself. Here's an (OpenBSD) example: http://www.stsx.org/software/openbsd/mfsmount.txt That's a shell script by the way, it just has a .txt suffix to avoid browser annoyance. Here's the story: http://www.stsx.org/software/openbsd/README.mfsmount.txt Good Luck, Bill > Also, re: net5501 board - does it work with Debian's stock > linux-image-2.6-686 (lenny) image? Is there any merit in building a > more-specific AMD Geode kernel? > > Thanks again, > 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
