The other day I got sidetracked and managed to build another Soekris Net4501 with an Oncore UT+ I had laying around. My old CF images from ~2008 have always served me well, but the problem being they require a 256MB or greater CF card. Seeing as how I had a stack of old 64MB & 128MB cards lying around I really wanted to be able to utilize them, especially since the used space is only around 45MB.
Figured I would start with FreeBSD 9 since it's the latest and greatest... That was a horrific build failure. Then I went with FreeBSD 8 since it's still current... After a lot of tweaking I finally got an image to compile, but had issues with networking, serial ports, and other hacks that I really just didn't want to deal with. So then I went with FreeBSD 7... huzzah! Compiled cleanly with very little effort and currently testing. I have a little tweaking to do with some files, but nothing major. Image fits like a charm on a 64MB CF too. Now that I have a working build environment, my next goal is to add a small http server and have it serve some basic stats at first. Then over time hopefully start recording & storing data and add some graphs and such. Right now the image is tailored towards running NTPns, but it also has regular old NTPD on it too. I figured before I finalize everything and post a download link I would ask if anyone has some package requests to be added in. I have ~11MB of free space for extras. Please contact me off-list for requests. Jason _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
