On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Jim Pingle wrote: >>> On 1/23/2012 2:33 PM, David Miller wrote: >>>> On 1/23/12 1:52 PM, Jim Pingle wrote: >>>> Can memsticks be used as the flash drive to run a pfsense instance on a >>>> soekris, or do I need to use that to install to another type of flash on >>>> the system? >>>> >>> Yes, but you should really be using NanoBSD if you choose that path. >>> Flash is way too short-lived to survive long with a full install for >>> extended periods. >> >> Whiteboard level overview: Is there an easy way to install the nano image on >> the internal flash card in a soekris? I don't have the right pieces to dd >> to the internal flash outside of the soekris; Can I boot off the memstick >> and scp a nano image onto flash? > > You can boot the serial memstick (I updated it today for a customer so > it's actually even more geared toward running on the 6501), let it boot > all the way so it's on the network, then fetch the nanobsd image and > write it out from there (may take some fiddling, don't have the syntax > handy) > > The serial memstick is now also set to still use the serial console > post-install, and it also defaults to em0 for wan, em1 for lan. Still > best to pick the embedded kernel during install. It's still SMP-capable, > but also set for the serial console.
So here's what I did: downloaded serial memstick image (works fine, btw, thanks) installed from memstick to a second USB flash drive so I can boot and get a console booted on the second flash drive, went to command line, scp'd pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz to /root gzcat pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz | dd of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 (also tried pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz) I thought that would give me a nice, bootable, nanobsd (embedded, RO) setup. However, trying to boot on it gives me: 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. /boot.config: -h \ And it stops doing anything. Does the image size (2/4 GB) have to match the flash size (16 GB) ? I'm sure I'm doing something st00pid, but can't see what. Pointers welcome! --- David _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
