This is going to qualify as a DDH (damn dirty hack), but what else am I good at? ;)

If you guys are at all familiar with the Tivo, they don't make the unit hackable on purpose.  In fact, you have to go to an awful lot of trouble in order to be able to play with the thing at all!  You have to kill the initrd process at boot time, and have to load a kernel other than theirs….however the unit will ONLY boot theirs.

The solution to this is something called monte.  monte allows you to switch kernels entirely after the boot process has loaded the kernel initially.

You could in theory compile monte to execute on the linux you got to load, and then monte to your pfSense kernel, could you not?  Assembler isn't my strong point here, so feel free to jump in and stomp on me if I've entirely missed the problem.

Here's the sourceforge link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/monte/

@jeroen234:

and if you copy it to a normal dir afther mounting ?

Well, if we're talking the pfSense ISO, no need to mount it. It's there already after a build_iso.sh.
Just modify the 'source tree', and execute the last couple of commands in this script file by hand.

Hi,
thanks for the answer. I've used cvsup_bsdinstaller and it works, but by the installscreen it wait endless for the backend :(

So i prob is gone, another is there ;) But before a few days (10-14) this probs aren't there. All works nice and no probs.
But i hope i find the prob and fix it. If i find answer i will tell you.

But thanks for the idea and for the good work

Bye
Thomas

Andrew fixed a few things in this area over the weekend.

@rsw686:

I see what your saying, but the asterik underline isn't being called by gettext in the original code. I know that the menu on my ip330 takes 3-5 seconds to show up. Probably from all the individual gettext function calls.

That's the point, it should.  When translating to Chinese or Japanese the asterisk line looks silly as its too short.

Anyway another feature which I should include a patch for is only displaying the SSH logout for SSH connections, easy to do:

What about GD2 extension? Very usefull for making some graphics, used in many free PHP based statistics modules.
Or it will take too many resources?

I think this problem is similar to how to deal with JavaScript in web pages.  The preferred method should not be to detect the platform but to detect the features.  For instance ask what are the real reasons for requiring a platform tag?  The main ones are for the kernel and for system upgrades.  Both of these are available with the kernel ident.  For other situations where the platform tag is used they can be replaced by feature detection.  For example /dev/ttyv0 does not exist on embedded platforms, and /dev/ttyd0 will not exist on strange platforms without a serial port.  CD-ROM based environments can be detected because the root file system is a cd9660 mount point, NFS debug environments can be detected similarly, and HDD/CF installs will have a /dev/ufs GEOM label root fs.

Very good question.  I'll ask Dario to join us.

Commited, thanks!

Yes got the GUI and FreeBSD binaries concepts.  I was just looking at the other packages and noting the different locations. 
Thanks what I wanted.  I was asking about for a place to dump files downloaded from an URL then converted for use.

Send them over as attachments to coreteam@pfsense.com and I'll check it out.  Thanks

Ok, thanks, just checking to make sure it was something on my end.

If you're at it:

Could you check if it would be possible to include a small fix for the name of the device (name.domain) shown in the head section in all templates to allow a bit more space? My devicename isn't that long, but the customers intranet has a FQDN which is quite a bit and the TLD just peeks out at the right. So his ".com" is shown on the dark background instead of the nice red one.
(I know 36 chars are long! but sometimes it has to be ;))

It's just a small thing, but as you already commit changes… :)

Commited, thanks!

Commited, thanks!

@MrMoo:

One possble alternative is to merge alternative kernels into pfSenses package system, i.e. download an optimised kernel for your configuration option.

We too can be ricers.  Not sure that I like this.

@sullrich:

FreeSBIE 2 ignores the build if its already done.  Not sure what you mean:

Building world for i386 architecture

NO_BUILDWORLD set, skipping build

Building kernel for i386 architecture

NO_BUILDKERNEL set, skipping build

Installing world for i386 architecture

Making hierarchy

Are you sure you are running FreeSBIE 2 (not 1)?

It is FreeSBIE 2, but I guess i'm working with buildworld/buildkernel in not the best way possible.  I'll work on it a bit to see why.