FreeBSD on a CompactFlash

[Vincent Barus]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Gilles <gilles.ganault at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello
>
>         After giving CF-based distros a try to run an Asterisk PBX, the
>  conclusion is that they're nice... as long as the apps they offer are
>  fine with you... which they aren't, so, if possible, I'd like to use a
>  regular FreeBSD distro, so I can install whatever application I need.
>
>  At this point, I seem to have understood that there are two ways to do
>  this:
>
>  - use a reduced FreeBSD that's been built from the get-go to run off a
>  CF card (ie. it's small, and doesn't trash the card with too many
>  write accesses)
>
>  - install FreeBSD on the server, and run a script like nanoBSD that
>  will build a compact image, ready to be dd'ed to the card.
>
>  Am I correct? Are there tips and traps to know about before giving it
>  a go?
>
>  Thank you.
>
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Hi Gilles,

that's right.
[1] is a How To for creating a FreeBSD to work on solid state devices.
[2] and [3] are Tiny- and NanoBSD which provide tools and scripts to
create a FreeBSD for e.g. embedded Systems on CF.
[4] is a nice Wiki for TinyBSD.

HTH,

~ vb