sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install
Murray Taylor
murraytaylor at bytecraftsystems.com
Sun Sep 5 16:28:07 PDT 2004
google for miniBSD
first return is
neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html
We are using this to put a FreeBSD installation onto 14MB of
a 32MB CF card.
mjt
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 07:59, jason wrote:
> Brian Henning wrote:
>
> >Greetings:
> >
> >My goal is to make a minimal install of FBSD on a 256 MB sandisk memory card. I have a usb card reader and I was wondering if there exists any instructions on how to perform the install out on the web. I tried googling for it and found nothing useful.
> >
> >Any thoughts,
> >
> >Brian
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> Feel free to put an os on flash, but not the swap partion. If you have
> enough ram you might not need it depending on what you are doing.
>
> Here is some info http://glozer.net/soekris/cf-install.html
>
> Looking at http://www.pretec.com/index2/product/SSD/IDE_Flash_Drive.htm
> the transfer speeds are very fast.
>
> Checking http://www.simpletech.com/flash/flash_prox.php will show
> reliability of write/erase endurance at 100,000 cycles. For data
> storage and just reading 1s and 0s flash lasts a very long time. Just
> don't write to them as a swap file or you could kill it real quick.
>
> For a flash drive like the usb san disk, it shows up just as a scsi. If
> you need a swap drive you should think about a md in ram or mount a fs
> after boot and make it sawp. Like an extra partion on a 80 gig drive.
> That is if you are going to take it to demo on windows pcs. If its for
> a diskless computer I would pop in an old spare ide or go with out a swap.
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