Alan, That's interesting. I wonder if he's using "Industrial Grade" or "Standard Grade" media? I'm still leaning toward a microdrive, since I don't need to worry about the box getting jostled around much. For now, I am building the prototype on an ancient little Seagate 260MB hard drive I found in my junk pile. I'm experimenting with read-only filesystems to maximize whatever media I end up using for the final product. In case anyone is curious, I started monkeying with Debian initially to make it run read-only, but then I found Pebble Linux which has already done all the Debian work for me and still provides full APT functionality. I was able to get a Pebble box running in about 15 minutes and then spent several minutes disabling and removing all the wireless-specific stuff that Pebble builds in (it's focused on creating wireless access points). Done. Very nice. Now, on to the applications! ...Kevin On 5/17/06 10:38 AM, "Alan Dayley" wrote: > (Broke the thread but my email archive is out of reach at the moment) > > To offer a tidbit from the IPCop email list to our discussions on using a > CF card instead of a hard drive: > > I stated that: > "I would not be too surprised if someone can claim running a Linux box on > a recent consumer grade CF for quite some time." (See > http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20060505.012233.ffbe1662.en.htm > l) > > Here is a posting from a user that has been running an IPCop firewall on a > CF card for 10 months. So, there you are. Flash memory is only getting > better and better. > > Alan > > From: Trevor Forbes > To: IpCop List > Subject: Re: [IPCop-user] Compact Flash > Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 21:43:36 +0930 > > I have been using a 1G 12MB/sec CF disk for just over 10 months and it > works like a dream -- no noise and no problems so far. I wanted the > IPCOP firewall to be silent so the CF disk meets my needs. Its a normal > hard drive install with no mods and I have the proxy running also.. > > Trevor > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss