Its been 3 days of running the dev_bootstrap.sh …. cvsup does a lot of downloading and then I get some panic and "kdb> " on the console.
Is it ok to just restart the PC?  because that seems to restart the process but I dont know if I am making any progress.

Any tips for a dev newbie? I have had power interruptions and isp messing up quite a lot so that is disrupting the process.

The cpu is a VIA C3, 900MHz, 256 MB Ram, 40 GB hard disk.
the iso I m trying right now is developers/pfSense.iso  dated   12-Jan-2007 10:53
Previously I tried using older verions of this iso.

Would it be better for me to use pfSense-Developers-1.0-LiveCD-Installer.iso.gz ?

Please search. There are multiple threads covering this already.

ok, thx for the answer.

The needed code is only in the head-version (developement version of the next major version). It's not in the 1.x-series.

This won't appear in before the next MAJOR Version.

The developer iso will do all this automatically once you install and boot it up in the background.  Be patient, it takes a while.

the complete comand will be:

diff -rub oldfile newfile > file.diff

old file is the file u have downloaded from the pfsense cvs
http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pfSense/
or from the pfsense package cvs if it is a package
http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tools/packages/
new file is the oldfile + you chances

file.diff is a file with in it only the chances you have made to the oldfile taken from the newfile
this is the one pfsense core team want's

Your running the developer edition.  It is targeted to pfSense/FreeBSD developers who may want to debug an issue.

Compile a new kernel based on pfSense.6 if you want to get around it.  Search your dev edition /home directories for it and copy it to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/config/

See the FreeBSD handbook for more information related to kernel compiling.

err..I only wanted to install the development source for pfsense. Didn't know it will also install the whole freebsd sources.

Is there anything special about an update image?  I just took the .img file I normally flash onto a CF, mounted that on my freebsd box, and tarred and gzip'd the root of that.  Are there certain files that should be removed from an update?  Is there any easy way to build an update from an existing image other than the way I did it?

@dvserg:

It's real html code. I store this from IE File->SaveAs and change only IP address my pfRouter to NICKname.
I can give you any HTML code by any page from pfsense with UPcased tags along 1 minute time  ;).

There you go - You should not save the page to a file to get the HTML source. Almost any browser modifies the original HTML code so the page still can be viewed locally. That means the HTML code that you did save to a file isn't equal to the HTML code displayed within your browser.

To get the unmodified HTML source you should always use the view source option from the context menu of your browser. This context menu can be unveiled if right-clicking onto a HTML page that is currently beeing displayed in your browser window.

Regards
Daniel S. Haischt

To update this for the 128MB embedded images the vmware virtual disk file should be

# Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=95a2f971 parentCID=ffffffff createType="monolithicFlat" # Extent description RW 239144 FLAT "pfSense.img" 0 # The Disk Data Base #DDB ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "1024" ddb.geometry.heads = "64" ddb.geometry.sectors = "32" ddb.adapterType = "ide"

@Numbski:

Anyhoo, I'll be patient.  Qemu won't be super fast, I know that.

There's a good reason why Q (on OSX it's called Q and not Qemu which makes a difference) is kind of slow. It runs in pure emulation mode because the accelerators kqemu (closed source) or QVM86 (OS) didn't make it to OSX as of today.

Regards
Daniel S. Haischt

@jeroen234:

i don't have rw cd's only r cd's

but if freebsd don't  suport this then you can never mount a cdrom rw like you are trying to do now with the cdrom image

Dunno if FreeBSD supports the UDF filesystem, probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to find out.  Either way, that's not quite an ISO filesystem anyway :)  But it sounds like it can't mount an iso9660 fs as read/write (I was only pointing out that the prior example was mounting read only so it couldn't have worked regardless).  FYI, the flag for mounting as writeable is '-w' - dunno if it makes a difference, but it may be that -r takes precedence over -w in -rw.

–Bill

@fernandotcl:

I wrote some stuff here that mails the user with a PHP SMTP script I found somewhere in the web, I guess it's a better option.

Hi,

Would you mind share this solution with us..?  I'm also interested in this.

Hank

Yea will shere with those conditions:

RADIUS autodiscovery, NAS self registration w/ discovered radius { Not GPL but I can make the service free for all, you just have to join my network (I cant build fuil for compettors, after all we are in ISP business ourselfs), got the scripr alredy, but its up to pfSense and Mono ppl to decide if they want to use this feature LCD Screen Support (will go public, will integrate software into Mono and psSense, the hardware will sale for reasonaby cheap price, we alcually have the harware I just need to to the soft and test it and them will print some board for some bestributors that i know) External Buttons for unit configs (same as LCD)

PS: If some one need some features in hardware i mihjt include them at this stage.

Do this instead:

fetch http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/bsdinstaller/installer.tgz
tar xzvpf installer.tgz -C /
cd /home/pfsense/installer/scripts/build/
./create_installer_tarballs.sh && ./copy_ports_to_portsdir.sh &&
./build_installer_packages.sh

This exact message was posted already today, please search before posting.

Start with the developers edition and http://wiki.pfsense.com/

–Bill