Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on a soekris net4801?

Scott Gustafson <[email protected]> Sat, 16 May 2015 09:17:39 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
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On May 15, 2015, at 7:45 PM, Bryan K. Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm curious if anybody has attempted an install of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
> (any release version) on a soekris net4801, or other Soekris boxes?  If
> anybody has tried it, I'd be curious to know how it went.

I'm running Debian 8 "Jessie" on a net6501-70 with a lan1841. I'm currently evaluating it as a firewall/router/switch (eth0 = wan, eth1-7 = lan). I haven't tested it with a few OpenVPN clients yet but on paper it looks like it should do fine with the load.

Install was easy booting off a USB drive net install image. The only trick was making sure the installer stayed in text mode instead of graphical on the console output. This is the boot line I used to make that work:
   install vga=normal fb=false DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text console=ttyS0,19200n8

scott

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