Re: Soekris 4526 board, possible to expand to CFcard with mini PCI

Bob Bishop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	Re: [Soekris] Soekris 4526 board, possible to expand to CFcard with mini PCI
> Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:23:42 +0200
> From:	Georg Bege <[email protected]>
> To:	Bob Bishop <[email protected]>
> 
> Hello
> 
> Thank your for the response.
> It may be enough, I really dont need much - maybe 90MB.
> So I could flash that thing with an file system?
> Im not sure how actually.
> 
> Any ideas where to begin?
> I need at least some kind of small OS (like OBSD).


You can install various OS on the flash via PXE. See http://wiki.soekris.info  for some ideas.


> On 04.06.2014 18:18, Bob Bishop wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 4 Jun 2014, at 16:25, Georg Bege 
> <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I need to know if I can expand this board somehow to disk booting...
> >> It usually boots diskless via PXE, however I wanted to make an wlan AP and thus
> >> cannot use PXE in this case.
> > The 4526 has 128 MB of bootable compact flash soldered on the board. That may not be enough for you, of course.
> >
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Georg
> > --
> > Bob Bishop
> > 
> [email protected]
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