Some small networked box with FreeBSD support?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Sep 13 05:29:57 UTC 2009


In message: <4AAC6ED0.5030702 at smiffytech.com>
            Matthew Smith <matt at smiffytech.com> writes:
: Quoth Philip Mullis at 2009-09-13 11:11...
: > Have you looked at the alix pcengines boards? there amd geode based and you can get 3 port versions for around 110usd perhaps easier to get in your region than soekris. 
: 
: These look pretty cool - and cheap.
: 
: I've been mucking around with some ancient PC104 SBCs, planning to get
: some sort of Flash FreeBSD installation so I can hook it into a GPS
: module and use it as a Stratum 1 NTP server.
: 
: Might be a lot easier to use one of these instead - and as I need to
: track down a load of extra (and old fashioned) RAM, may not cost more
: either.
: 
: Don't suppose anyone has a suitable disc image that will fit on a 4Gb CF
: card?  (Part of the reason I haven't got very far with this is the fact
: that getting FreeBSD to install in 4Gb seems more fiddly than I have the
: time for.)

FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all.  so 4gb
should be child's play.

Warner


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