Soekris engineering "routers"

[Jay Moore]

On Saturday 30 October 2004 07:45 pm, LiQuiD wrote:
>
> I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
> in the list now.  Their website claims they can be used with a compact
> flash card.  I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
> hard drive.  Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one
> of those boxes using a compact flash card?

Not FreeBSD, but I have installed and used OpenBSD successfully. There are a 
few "tricks" involved in using the CF card. Here's my fstab listing - it may 
help get you started: 

$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/wd0a / ffs rw,noaccesstime 1 1
# /dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
/dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=128000 0 0
/dev/wd0b /var mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,union,-s=128000 0 0
/dev/wd0g /usr ffs rw,nodev,noaccesstime 1 2

Check the soekris & OpenBSD mailing list archives for more goodies.

> If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple
> clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power
> consumption.

Yep - that's the idea.

Jay