Re: FreeBSD router on a USB flash drive?

From: Roman Volf (volfman_at_keystreams.com)
Date: 01/22/04

  • Next message: Matthew D. Fuller: "Re: FreeBSD router on a USB flash drive?" 
    Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:52:47 -0800
To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    The fewer moving parts in a router, the better. Flash drives have no
    moving parts and should have a lower probability of failure. Something
    you should look into, Christoffer, are pcmcia-to-ide and also CF-to-IDE
    adapters. You can get a cheaper Compact Flash card, plug it in, and the
    computer thinks that its a normal IDE HD. They cost about $40 for the
    adapters plus the price of the flash card.

    Roman Volf

    Justin Hopper wrote:

    >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 =)
    >
    >
    > 

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Roman Volf
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