Subject: Re: IA-1 "refurbished" units
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/15/2001 14:38:48
In message <200112151931.fBFJVrB16892@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>In message <20011215191219.7150C7B55@berkshire.research.att.com>, "Steven M. B
>e
>llovin" writes:
>>Will it accept larger CF cards? 16 MB isn't much, but the cards have
>>gotten a lot cheaper.
>
>I believe it will. I had trouble getting my 64MB to boot, but I have been
>able to mount larger cards as additional filesystems. My boot problems were
>almost certainly pilot error.
Tempting. If I've followed this story correctly, you're booting from
CF and mounting /usr via NFS, using a USB Ethernet widget. Does the
sound card work? What about X?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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