RE: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Mariotti
on how to solve this? Regards, Chuck -Original Message- From: cbuech...@gmail.com [mailto:cbuech...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:30 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very

RE: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-26 Thread Dimitri Rodis
Systems LLC -Original Message- From: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:cmario...@xunity.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:40 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad I have gone out and purchased a SanDisk 8GB CF Card. Using

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-26 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:40:05 -0500, Chuck Mariotti cmario...@xunity.com a écrit : I have gone out and purchased a SanDisk 8GB CF Card. Using VMWare Workstation, mounted the CF as physical drive. Booted off CD, ran install to disk option, all defaults to install to CF (chose Embedded

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10:11PM -0500, Chuck Mariotti wrote: I posted asking about Atom processors last week and ended up taking the advice of going with the Alix 6B2 kit (not Atom). Just unpacked it, installed embedded onto the flash, booted it up and it's up and running. Very nice

[pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Chuck Mariotti
I posted asking about Atom processors last week and ended up taking the advice of going with the Alix 6B2 kit (not Atom). Just unpacked it, installed embedded onto the flash, booted it up and it's up and running. Very nice solution pulling in less than 3Watts without a load. Next step was to

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Chuck Mariotti cmario...@xunity.com wrote: I posted asking about Atom processors last week and ended up taking the advice of going with the Alix 6B2 kit (not Atom). Just unpacked it, installed embedded onto the flash, booted it up and it's up and running.

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Morgan Reed
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Chuck Mariotti cmario...@xunity.com wrote: Next step was to setup the packages... surprise, surprise... no packages available for embedded. I'm very sad about this. All I wanted was IDS/Snort and maybe SpamD. From a shell; echo pfSense /etc/platform reboot

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Morgan Reed
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: Run a full install on 2 or 4 GB CF. That's what I do, as well as several other developers. Theoretically it'll kill the flash, in reality, many of us have been doing this for years and I don't know of anyone that's killed

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Morgan Reed morgan.s.r...@gmail.com wrote: From a shell; echo pfSense /etc/platform reboot Install packages From a shell; echo embedded /etc/platform reboot Done. That will work for some packages, but not all. Embedded runs ro on mounts that some

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: That will work for some packages, but not all. Embedded runs ro on mounts that some packages need rw on. Also takes very little to run out of space on the CF unless you do a full install to a 1-4 GB card, which will give

RE: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Chuck Mariotti
Rees [mailto:dree...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:25 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: That will work for some packages

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Chuck Mariotti cmario...@xunity.com wrote: And to clarify, when people are saying full install, do they mean the regular CD-ROM (pfSense-1.2.2-LiveCD-Installer.iso). As well, my CF card is 512MB, does a base install work on something this size? (I'd hate to

Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option - very sad

2009-01-22 Thread Morgan Reed
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: That will work for some packages, but not all. Embedded runs ro on mounts that some packages need rw on. Also takes very little to run out of space on the CF unless you do a full install to a 1-4 GB card, which will give