From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 10:42:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1A4106564A for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:42:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC30E8FC0A for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p35AgXUA081149; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:42:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4D9AF219.1030105@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:42:33 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20110402214312.GA3848@thought.org> <20110402235654.GE4792@thought.org> <20110404233904.GC13182@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20110404233904.GC13182@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: remaining goal.. . X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:42:37 -0000 On 04/05/11 00:39, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:39:19PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >>> simply that i'm looking for somebody who know how to transfer pfsense >>> from a standalone system to this kit. >> >> I would suggest using Diagnostics/Backup/restore on the current system >> to save a copy of the configuration in a .xml file. > > Done. in fact i have two copies. > >> Then install pfSense on the new machine by whatever means are >> available -- I think the current two options are bootable CD-R and >> bootable USB stick, but there may be others for embedded systems -- >> I'm not familiar with those. > > > That is axactly my problem. This is a tiny 4watt kit type > deal, all solid state with with memory that requires some > special kind of burner. [I have the latest pfSense tarball > and my .xml restore/update file. ... so, software side, i'm > all set.] I use pfSense, but my system (based on an Alix 2D3 board) has a compact flash drive, so I simply dd the disk image onto the CF card on my normal FBSD box, and plug it into the Alix, which is the usual way of deploying embedded pfSense. What hardware are you using? Does it have any CF or SD card capability, or maybe a USB port?