Some small networked box with FreeBSD support?

[Eric L. Chen]

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 16:43 +0930, Matthew Smith wrote:
> 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
> 
I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB
RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM).
My making script attached.


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Eric L. Chen

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