Re: a brief story about your alternatives

Leevon Reaves said:
> I was at the time working on a large project involving small embedded
> routers.    In my professional opinion openbsd on soekris is awesome.

That's what you would have got when/if your Embsd order arrived.  As far
as the hardware is concerned, anyway.  So not really an 'alternative'!

> I highly reccomend the soekris products, which can be  purchased from
> www.soekris.com.   openbsd proper can fit on a 128meg cf  with 64 m
> left over....  thats what I personally ended up doing.

Except that the stock OpenBSD likes a writeable /var/ ... and puts logs
in it.  Your Compact-Flash device will die after a while.  They can't
cope with being written to a lot.  Are you aware of this limitation?

> the only piece of advice I have for anyone is to not undersetimate how
> hard it is to get cf geometry correct.

Yes, that is useful advice, thanks.  I think it has been pointed out a
few times on the list so far, but I'm not sure if it has found its way
into any documentation yet.

Andrew.

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