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

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:

if (\$_ENV['SSH_CLIENT']) echo    _('0) Logout')

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!