From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 18:05:21 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 7345F106564A for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413388FC19 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E712CE80525; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:05:19 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <20110405180519.GA27662@thought.org> References: <20110402214312.GA3848@thought.org> <20110402235654.GE4792@thought.org> <20110404233904.GC13182@thought.org> <4D9AF219.1030105@qeng-ho.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D9AF219.1030105@qeng-ho.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 18:05:21 -0000 On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:42:33AM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > 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? It is a Alix 601 board with 1G of CF flash. But according to my hardware friend, it will take a CF burner of some kind. I'm sure the kit has the right ports and I have the right sized pfSense image.... for me , it's messing with plugging things together and figuring out which cables go where. That's where i'm in the dark. ...be nice if i could do without theis "burner"... > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org