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Title: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Greg on May 23, 2003, 11:51:01 PM

Has anyone tried to install E-Smith on a Conpact Flash card. Can it be installed in 500 Meg or 1 Gig space.
Thought a firewall not having a disk drive spinning would be nice.

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Kelvin on May 24, 2003, 02:50:33 PM

Greg,

Wouldn't the cost of the CF end being more than an actual firewall device ?

Kelvin

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Jaime Nebrera on May 24, 2003, 02:58:10 PM

Hi Greg,

  E-Smith is much more than a firewall, and is not prepared to run in a Compact Flash. CF hava a write limit and if you store logs and /var  and swap in it you would ruin it in a couple of moths, besides being much slower.

  There are some firewall products that run in CF, actually we have developed one :) Besides, just for HD firewalling smoothwall is a better product than SME.

  Hope it helps. Regards.

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Per Soerensen on May 24, 2003, 07:32:23 PM

Have a look here:

http://www.openbrick.com/


Per

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Steven on May 26, 2003, 12:18:13 PM

I can't remeber where  I saw this, so you'll need to do some googling, but you can get a linux firewall to boot and run completly of a single floppy.

Steven

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: David Woolley on May 26, 2003, 07:29:40 PM

>>I can't remeber where I saw this, so you'll need to do some googling, but you can get a linux firewall to boot and run completly of a single floppy.



Try  http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/

hth

David

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Jaime Nebrera on May 26, 2003, 09:35:55 PM

Hi Per,

  Using such a hardware is not the solution. Doesnt matter where you run it, if you use a CF in a stock SME you will ruin it in say 3 or 4 months. Pretty much custom modifications are needed to achieve that.

  Regards.

Title: Re: Bootable Compact Flash IDE
Post by: Karl W. Mueller on May 27, 2003, 10:45:02 AM

There is a floppy-router called  fli4l. You can run it from a single floppy or from a flash-disk.  I used to run it with the sme for years. It is very easy to configure. You will find it at www.fli4l.de/e_index.htm


Karl