One little trick with Bao's image (if you have a large enough flash card - 256 for mine, and enough system ram), you can change the -s16m in /etc/fstab to -s64m for the /tmp ramdrive, symlink /var/tmp to /tmp. Update /etc/platform back to pfsense, and then you can apply a full update to it. The trick is making sure you have enough space in /tmp ;) And of course...this only works on a full install to CF that's had it's platform changed...don't try this on a native embedded, you'll blow up the kernel.
And as always...such playing around is unsupported, but fwiw, I did exactly that last night. --Bill On 5/16/06, Bao C. Ha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is the same thing I did. I use the standard image to build the CF version. Just change the version from "pfsense" to "embedded". Bao On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:29:19PM -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: > On 5/16/06, Angelo Turetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And what about the case in original post? > >He has installed the full version from CD-ROM to a CF (used as a hard > >disk). I'm confident that such a setup results in a platform setting of > >'pfsense'. If I later change the platform to 'embedded', can I use it on > >a 'Real PC'? (for example, using an ATA-to-CF adapter). Of course I'll > >lose the package manager, but will the VGA work as usual? > > Yes, your thinking is correct. -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 530-8817 fax: (714) 530-8818 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38
