Re: network appliance question[re post]
Jeff Hamann wrote: I would like to take a ton of apps I've compiled from source, plus gobs of my own source, build a distro of that super solid freebsd I love, and hermetically seal it up in a box that can be plugged into a network hub, so that users don't have to use anything but a web browser, sftp, or ssh to access the contents. My questions are as follows: 1) Is this possible? 2) If so, is there a network appliance starter kit I can play with first to prove the concept, and 3) If so, where? I haven't been too successful searching for network appliance building for dummies Thanks, Jeff. Jeff Hamann, PhD PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 541-754-2457 jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com http://www.forestinformatics.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org another options is nanoBSD http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/ and iirc there is frenzy livecd building scripts in ports ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network appliance question
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jeff Hamann jeff.ham...@forestinformatics.com wrote: I would like to take a ton of apps I've compiled from source, plus gobs of my own source, build a distro of that super solid freebsd I love, and hermetically seal it up in a box that can be plugged into a network hub, so that users don't have to use anything but a web browser, sftp, or ssh to access the contents. My questions are as follows: 1) Is this possible? 2) If so, is there a network appliance starter kit I can play with first to prove the concept, and 3) If so, where? I haven't been too successful searching for network appliance building for dummies Thanks, Jeff. Jeff Hamann, PhD PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 541-754-2457 jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com http://www.forestinformatics.com There may be a far better method, but perhaps using /usr/ports/sysutils/freesbie to build an ISO then using it to image a drive would work for you. Or there is this sort of approach too, obviously need to be adapted/slimmed to your embedded enviro as well. There is an old FreeBSD embedded cookbook to, I'd guess much of it still applies. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.htmlhttp://www.gsoft.com.au/%7Edoconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.html -- Adam Vande More Looking into this a little more and this page may also interest you. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/releng/release-build.html /usr/src/release/ contains some interesting items. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: network appliance question
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jeff Hamann jeff.ham...@forestinformatics.com wrote: I would like to take a ton of apps I've compiled from source, plus gobs of my own source, build a distro of that super solid freebsd I love, and hermetically seal it up in a box that can be plugged into a network hub, so that users don't have to use anything but a web browser, sftp, or ssh to access the contents. My questions are as follows: 1) Is this possible? 2) If so, is there a network appliance starter kit I can play with first to prove the concept, and 3) If so, where? I haven't been too successful searching for network appliance building for dummies Thanks, Jeff. Jeff Hamann, PhD PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 541-754-2457 jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com http://www.forestinformatics.com There may be a far better method, but perhaps using /usr/ports/sysutils/freesbie to build an ISO then using it to image a drive would work for you. Or there is this sort of approach too, obviously need to be adapted/slimmed to your embedded enviro as well. There is an old FreeBSD embedded cookbook to, I'd guess much of it still applies. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
