Slightly undersized CF cards with nanobsd images?

jimp

The sizes have been nudged down a tad, so keep an eye on the snapshots for new images:

https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/7ff3db783970b1fadf0ffbea06bcae0c3dc23ed2

gloomrider

Thanks!

FRiC

Is it better to use 2 GB image with 2 GB cards? Since my 2 GB cards also couldn't fit the old 2 GB images, I've been using the 1 GB images forever.

jimp

@FRiC:

Is it better to use 2 GB image with 2 GB cards? Since my 2 GB cards also couldn't fit the old 2 GB images, I've been using the 1 GB images forever.

That is really up to you. Some people believe they will use all the space, so they don't want to "waste" any, but also consider what databeestje wrote in this post:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,17369.msg97591.html#msg97591

jimp

Is anyone still having a problem with current nanobsd images not fitting on their cards?

The sizes were reduced by a good chunk to accommodate the smallest ones that were posted.

althornin

I have not reflashed any of the "2GB" cards that I was using.
I'll give it a shot when I get a chance and let you know.

Klug

I just hit the problem 8-(

The CF is a Transcend Ultra 1 GB Industrial.

Here's what I got :```
[root@gojira pfSense]# zcat pfSense-1.2.3-1G-20090918-0711-nanobsd.img.gz | dd of=/dev/xvdb1 bs=16k
dd: writing `/dev/xvdb1': No space left on device
28821+0 records in
28820+0 records out
472195584 bytes (472 MB) copied, 32.5402 seconds, 14.5 MB/s

gloomrider

@Klug:

I just hit the problem 8-(

The CF is a Transcend Ultra 1 GB Industrial.

Here's what I got :```
[root@gojira pfSense]# zcat pfSense-1.2.3-1G-20090918-0711-nanobsd.img.gz | dd of=/dev/xvdb1 bs=16k
dd: writing `/dev/xvdb1': No space left on device
28821+0 records in
28820+0 records out
472195584 bytes (472 MB) copied, 32.5402 seconds, 14.5 MB/s

That's a different problem. Your card filled up after 472 MB.

Klug

Ooops, you're right.
Sorry 8-(

Stupid partition table on brand new CF…
Now nicely working :```
[root@gojira pfSense]# zcat pfSense-1.2.3-1G-20090918-0711-nanobsd.img.gz | dd of=/dev/xvdb1 bs=16k
60858+0 records in
60858+0 records out
997097472 bytes (997 MB) copied, 57.9339 seconds, 17.2 MB/s

althornin

Finally getting a chance to work on this again (this is a project at work, so its get time when I have time to spare :)).

Flashed the slightly reduced images onto my "2GB" cards…
Successfully!
About to overwrite the contents of disk 2 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
2001194496/2001194496 bytes written in total

Boot fine as well. Thanks for taking the feedback and working with it, it is appreciated.