Small Linux boxes?

[Kevin]

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
<http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble> 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" <alandd at consultpros.com> 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 <t4bs at internode.on.net>
> To: IpCop List <ipcop-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> 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
> 
> 
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