FC4 CF-based Router

[Tom Diehl]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Bob Chiodini wrote:

> Steven Ringwald wrote:
> 
> > Bob Chiodini wrote:
> >
> > Ok. So you are saying, basically, to use a ext2 filesystem natively to 
> > boot off of and then just treat it like grub/Fedora normally treat 
> > partitions? Or are you saying boot the flash, and then hop over to the 
> > hard-drive? Problem with the latter; system has no hard-drive, and 
> > adding one would increase its weight/cost/number of moving parts... 
> > Design criteria is *very* strict on these points, and the 
> > specification of "no hard-drive". :-)
> > If the former, the problem with that is we wanted to make it easy to 
> > upgrade the flash image, rather than having to include bios upgrade 
> > utility. Almost any system on the market right now can read/write vfat 
> > (Mac/Linux/Windows/BeOS)...
> 
> 
> I mean boot and run from the CF.  It looks like a hard drive to Linux 
> anyway.  I take it that you got a USB stick loaded with Linux to boot 
> and run.  Is that image too large for the CF?

FWIW, We have FC4 running on CF here. It is on an ext3 partition. As far as the
OS is concerned it is just another disk. The only thing we do is mount
it noatime. They have been running for approx 6 months 24/7. I have kickstart
files that load the OS in about 15 minutes and then we use firewall builder
to setup rules.

I missed the beginning of this thread so if this is not what your asking then
feel free to ignore this.

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com