[Soekris] arguments for ADDing flash to an hdd-based system?

[Tenzen]

Hi,

All helpful comments; good food for thought. thanks!

> >I'm interested in lists members' opinions on whether there's any
> >particular reasons/advantages to ADDing flash-mem.
>
> I do put CF cards in my systems in addition to harddisk, for two
> reasons:
>
> 1. Having a NanoBSD image on the CF, gives a good platform for
> doing radical system maintenance work on the disk.  In some
> cases I have configured things so that a "degraded mode" service
> can be run from the CF card, until the HD can be fixed.
<snip>

Although I do agree that install over a 'slow line' can be a pain,
we're ok - for now - installing over LAN via tftp+nfs.  Works fine.

But, having never (yet) upgraded FreeBSD as we're still rather new to
the FreeBSD environment and have only 'new' v6.2-RELEASE instances,
the option for a NanoBSD instance on Flash seems interesting.

I suppose it's possible to do the upgrade in-place "on" the existing
HDD (again, I've simply not done it yet ...), but the option to have a
'safe' boot env, in case the HDD dies or the install is screwed up,
seems of real value.

Is there a good reference/howto on installing NanoBSD on a Soekris'
FlashDrive for eventual upgrade?

Thanks.

--Tenzen