[time-nuts] Working on new NanoBSD w/NTPns for Net4501image...

Fri Apr 19 14:14:11 UTC 2013

Jason, a few months ago I was able to build a FreeBSD 9 system using 
standard NTP.  It involved a lot of pain, a lot of help from PHK, and a 
lot of handwaving, but in the end it worked.  I'm happy to share config 
info if you'd like -- contact me off list.

John
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On 4/19/2013 9:50 AM, Jason Rabel wrote:
> The other day I got sidetracked and managed to build another Soekris Net4501 with an Oncore UT+ I had laying around. My old CF
> images from ~2008 have always served me well, but the problem being they require a 256MB or greater CF card. Seeing as how I had a
> stack of old 64MB & 128MB cards lying around I really wanted to be able to utilize them, especially since the used space is only
> around 45MB.
>
> Figured I would start with FreeBSD 9 since it's the latest and greatest... That was a horrific build failure.
>
> Then I went with FreeBSD 8 since it's still current... After a lot of tweaking I finally got an image to compile, but had issues
> with networking, serial ports, and other hacks that I really just didn't want to deal with.
>
> So then I went with FreeBSD 7... huzzah! Compiled cleanly with very little effort and currently testing. I have a little tweaking to
> do with some files, but nothing major. Image fits like a charm on a 64MB CF too.
>
> Now that I have a working build environment, my next goal is to add a small http server and have it serve some basic stats at first.
> Then over time hopefully start recording & storing data and add some graphs and such.
>
> Right now the image is tailored towards running NTPns, but it also has regular old NTPD on it too. I figured before I finalize
> everything and post a download link I would ask if anyone has some package requests to be added in. I have ~11MB of free space for
> extras.
>
> Please contact me off-list for requests.
>
> Jason
>
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