On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Chris C. wrote: > Hi, > > we're going to build a simple Wlan between a friends apartment and my house. > We decided to run obsd 4.0 as we want to use ipsec for encryption. > One of these systems will have to boot from a CF Card (or any other really > silent media if you have suggestions). Since flash media only has limited > write cycles and we will need to modify some files from time to time (Port > forwards in pf.conf, some files in /var and so on..., logging isn't that > important) we want to use a ramdisk (or tmpfs, don't know the exact name) and > then sync the data to disk every hour or so. Is there a Howto for booting > openbsd from a CF-Card (using an IDE adapter) and then mounting a ramdisk > over /var? (I think we could just symlink files in /etc which we will need to > modify to the ramdisk). > > -- > Greetings > Chris
Chris Take a look at flashboot, http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/ . This is what we use on dual soekris firewalls at a friend's business. diana
