FilePro on Raspberry PI?

[Fairlight]

You know, I remember the joy we experienced when we could drop ibcs2 and
linux-abi because we finally had a native option.

Now people want to -voluntarily- invoke the hell of using an emulator,
just to run it on different hardware.

*shakes head sadly*

m->


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 03:49:46AM +0000, Jay Ashworth thus spoke:
> "Box(86)"
> 
> It's a PC hardware emulator.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fairlight via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:45:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: FilePro on Raspberry PI?
> 
> > I don't know why nobody is mentioning the obvious:
> > 
> > Unless fP is compiled for ARM, no, that won't work.
> > 
> > m->
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 05:54:40PM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus
> > spoke:
> >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, Brian K. White via Filepro-list wrote:
> >> >On 6/13/21 4:57 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
> >> >> Is FilePro available for the Raspberry PI?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Considering that I can put together a system with an 8gb
> >> >> Raspberry PI 4B, Argon One M.2, 1TB internal SATA SSD, and PoE
> >> >> splitter for less than $300.00, this looks like a viable
> >> >> replacement for an existing Linux box.  The Argon case doesn't
> >> >> need any internal fan, so no moving parts.
> >> >> 
> >> >> This box would handle e-mail, OpenVPN, and pretty much everthing
> >> >> their current Linux system does.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Bill
> >> >
> >> >CPU & ram isn't the problem, the storage is. SD cards are not reliable enough
> >> >even if you were ok with the speed.
> >> >There are a few enclosures and adapter boards that provide a real pcie slot,
> >> >which you can attach a real ssd to, and I think now finally they have
> >> >firmware updates that allow you to boot from that ssd.
> >> 
> >> I have an internal 1TB SATA drive in the Argon One M.2 case, and
> >> am trying to figure out how to get it to boot from that without
> >> the microSD card installed.
> >> 
> >> I have it connected with a PoE splitter as I haven't found a PoE
> >> hat that will fit in the case.  It's nice that I was able to free
> >> up two 120v outlets when I went with these splitters to my old PI
> >> 3B+ and the new PI 4B.
> >> 
> >> Once I figure out the VLAN configuration, I plan to replace my
> >> old NETGEAR router with the PI 3B+, perhaps moving to another 4B
> >> in an Argon case to support OpenVPN at the border rather than
> >> having it run on an internal CentOS box.
> >> 
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> >As for fp, I haven't tried it, but there is something called box86 that looks
> >> >promising.
> >> 
> >> I'm down to supporting one client using FilePro.  Rodgers Hemer,
> >> now retired, was the last person to modify their FP system.
> >> 
> >> They're running a CentOS 5 box that was installed in late 2007.
> >> 
> >> Bill
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