Some small networked box with FreeBSD support?

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-09-13 15:06...
>> FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all.  so 4gb
>> should be child's play.
> 
> I must have been doing something wrong because the couple of times I
> tried, it ran out of space.  Perhaps I need to do a minimal install and
> then add any packages I need by hand.

Just out of curiosity, I tried the same installation (FreeBSD 6.3, i386
- kernel developer config) on a VMware virtual machine to which I had
allocated 16Gb of disc. No problems.

The clean installation takes up about 650Mb.  Why the installation is
failing on the 4Gb drive I cannot fathom.  Obviously the installer is
doing *something* funny.

Whilst the Alix devices still look attractive, I've just ordered some
RAM via eBay to take both the SBCs up to 128Mb (currently only have 16Mb
each.)  Will see if I can't get something working.  (Odds are the
wretched things won't boot off the CF disc like the old ThinkPad I tried
it in.)

Cheers

M

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