Cool. I use these extremely inexpensive 4GB HP USB drives to boot my 6501 using the external USB port. I've also deployed the same to fire up some of our (relatively) inexpensive HP DL120 diskless servers; all USB drives are loaded with nanobsd. Build/burn/test cycle is less than two hours, the build taking <18 minutes on a 16-core machine, the burn being dreadfully slow and the tests taking most of the remainder.
Reason I prefer external ports is that nanobsd remote updates are iffy. They either work or, mostly due to operator error, don't. I'm glad to be in a position to shutdown, swap drives, reboot and view the results on a console. disclaimer: You probably do not want to use my approach in a business setting if your hardware is not behind lock and key. I do not yet possess a spare 6501 and therefore have not yet deployed this device in a production environment. Met vriendelijke groet Jos Jansen Adjunct-directeur Techniek Snow B.V. Unix Specialists http://snow.nl Tel +31 345 656666 Fax +31 345 656665 On Feb 11, 2012, at 15:36 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 2/10/12 7:27 PM, AMuse wrote: >> ... I have a Net6501 with an internal, securely-mounted USB boot >> device and a free USB port on the front to store firewall config >> backups. >> >> Photos here for illustration: http://foofus.com/amuse/net6501/ >> ... > > Clever. > > How did you figure out the pinouts (which direction to face the USB > drive) so that you know which one is +5 VDC to match with the pins on JP5? > > /Lars > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
