SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

Tue Aug 8 00:35:34 PDT 2006

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:32:35PM +0100, James Mansion wrote:
> >The CF card just looks like an ATA disk to the OS, so
> >it should just run fine.  I have a bunch of ATA-to-CF
> >converters which I use for diskless applications, they
> >appear as /dev/ad0.
> 
> Is Dragonfly easy to configure for readonly root?

An alternative may be to use a r/w mfs root and only mount the CF as
needed.

I have done this for ThinBSD - an embedded distribution of FreeBSD; it
should be feasible with Dragonfly too.

Check out http://www.thinbsd.org/ for details.

-- 
Francois Tigeot