On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:38:15AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-07-01, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For a long while I've been gently trying to get FreeBSD/nanobsd built > > for a 4801 and installed on a Sandisk 4G CF card. > > Have you considered a standard FreeBSD install? >
A CF -> PATA adapter might be helpful. If you are going to use Virtual Machines I find it more useful to setup a FreeBSD VM as an nfs/tftp server for remote installs. I find the OpenBSD setup here much much easier but the FreeBSD setup isn't impossible. > I'm running FreeBSD 10, as an NTP server, on a net5501 using 2G of > CF. I originally installed FreeBSD 9.x and keep updating it with > freebsd-update(8). Even 2G of flash is enough for a standard > install. > > The information at http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_FreeBSD is > to be taken with a grain of salt. E.g., for the net5501 its > recommendations for a custom kernel include "Add 'options CPU_SOEKRIS' > and 'options CPU_GEODE'". However, CPU_SOEKRIS only concerns the > net4xxx and CPU_GEODE isn't referenced anywhere in the 10-STABLE > kernel source. > > Regarding the net4801, CPU_SOEKRIS and CPU_ELAN_* only appear to > concern the GPIO port, so if you don't hook up anything there, my > best guess is that a standard install with GENERIC should work just > fine. > The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in the kernel added precision to the timekeeping? -- Chris __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)____.___o____..___..o...________ooO..._____________________ Christopher Sean Hilton [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
