On 07/11/10 19:30, Peter Bako wrote: > I'm setting up (well, trying to I guess :-) ) a read-only OpenBSD system to > run off a small CF card.
"trying to shoot myself in the foot" > Never having done this before, I found an > excellent for funny definition of "excellent" > article written by Daniele Mazzocchio > (http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/embedded/) to use as my guide. I had a > few minor issues crop up, but have been able to work my way through them. > However I finally got to one that I am stumped with. "Finally landed a bullet deep in a major bone" ... > BTW, in case it matters. I'm using OpenBSD 4.6 as both the host on which I > setup the image and OS on the CF card. The card in question is a 64M > SanDisk CF and is being plugged into a Soekris Net4801 box. None of these > should make a difference, but you never know... :-) Figure out what your time is worth per hour. Figure out how many hours you wasted on this so far. Look at the price of a 1G or bigger CF card. Go buy yourself a new card (last I saw, smallest CF card my local retailer had was 4G, but 1G will do Just Fine if you can find it), and do a standard install on it. Rest assured the new card will do better, run longer, be easier to maintain and less total down time than your bastardized system will. The only reason today to try to cram OpenBSD onto tiny media is to show how "l33t" you are. Sorry, I'm past that. I got things to do with my time much more important than resolving self-made problems that do not make the world a better place in any way, and in fact, make things worse by most real measures. Hey, I'm all for experimenting and learning, but doing silly things for wrong goals and then begging for help is not a good plan. Nick.
