Re: FreeBSD router on a USB flash drive?

From: Justin Hopper (jhopper_at_bsdhosting.net)
Date: 01/22/04

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    To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:43:51 -0800

    On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 08:55, Christoffer Pio wrote:
    > Hello all, has anyone experience with booting from, and running a FreeBSD
    > based router on a USB 2.0 flash drive?

    I'm really curious what brought you to the situation of needing to boot
    from a flash drive for a router? =)

    I picked up a USB 2.0 flash drive (128MB) for transferring files around
    between workstations and I really like its convenience. I formatted the
    drive in FreeBSD 5.1 and installed the standard boot loader. It took me
    a while to find a box with a new enough BIOS to be able to use the flash
    drive as a boot option, but I finally found one and was able to get to
    the boot loader. However, 128MB didn't seem to be enough space to do a
    minimum install so I was not able to install 5.1 on it and boot from
    it. I didn't have the time to try to see if I could trim down the
    install further, so this was as far as I got.

    I assume with a larger flash drive it is completely possible. As to why
    you would want to do it, I'm still not sure =) 

    -- 
Justin Hopper  <jhopper@bsdhosting.net>
UNIX Systems Engineer
BSDHosting.net
Hosting Division of Digital Oasys Inc.
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