Ok hoba, thank you very much for your response!
It's such a shame becouse i love pfSense and i wanted to run it on that computer… I´ll keep trying. Thank you again.
Cheers

Nice, you seem to use it to the max  ;D
However the additional hardware does need additional power. Make sure the PSU is not at it's limit. While performing a reset it might need a power peak from the PSU to reinitialise everything.

We have started documentation. Have you already found this: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Chapter_3:_Installing_pfSense ?

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BuildingpFSense
http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=VMWareDevelopersEdition

Yes, the *.img files are for the embeddeds.

We have 2 methods of developing you're own image.  The VMWare developers edition and the pfSense developers edition.

We do not plan on adding more work to a already complicated/time cosnuming release process.

Please try this: http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting
The newer versions have a completely different installer.

ok will try that setup lter on today.. hope that works

swap will be nearly never used unless you run out of RAM, which shouldn't happen unless your RAM is too small for what you are trying to do.

indeed.  You can't ping what?  from where?

@christianb:

I managed to get the install on a 2.5" disk.

First I put the disk into my old laptop, and swapped out the intel2200bg card for an atheros one, so there would be two interfaces. PF sense intsalled, went through everything and hit 99 option for hdd install and even allocated 1gb of swap.

Then put the 2.5" disk into the soekris, and interestingly console worked enough to tell me that it could not find the original LAN interface, but let me assign a new one, from there it was GUI all the way.

It definately runs quicker from a GUI point of view, even though no swap space used as yet, I shall do some testing at some point to see if on HDD it works better under load. I have seen soekris have launched a version with 256mb of embedded memory BTW.

Has there been any thought to having a dual HDD and CF install? with read-only on CF, swap and storage on HDD. Basically it could be a CF install, then a script similar to the one to allocate free space on a CF card, but to HDD, and add packages in the process?

Thanks again for all your help, and look forward to seeing the usb boot version

That's on my list of things I'd like to work on at some point (I've got a couple Nexcom that are spinning platters that are entirely unused right now).

–Bill

here is the Captive portal topic
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=490.msg3076#msg3076

You can do manual upgrades for non embedded versions. For embedded versions we provide mini update files. These however only upgrade the webgui.

Okay thanks, I'll check it out.

I have tried again just now.
This time i tried it with a bios update. Its 1.05 now.
And im still having trouble installing pfsense 1.0 beta to my HD.
I checked the bios settings and i set IDE to manual, Mode to LBA, PIO to mode4 and disabled UMDA for the master device on IDE1
that has my toshiba 40gig HD connected to it.

But i have installed pfsense ( through the Safe mode option ).
After install I still have to boot pfsense in safe mode for it to run.
If i let the boot loader run the default choice, pfsense will end with the messages that it cant mount the root partition.
And wont start.

Can keep it running in this safe mode?
Are there only hardware related options 'off' or also network specific option 'off' ?

Thnx for any help

Thanks for reminding me what hoba said earlier in this thread.
No, I did not have a serial cable plugged up.

I tried to figure out how to connect a PC monitor to the serial port  :-[
and then I remembered something I read about m0n0wall on a Soekris and a serial port,
here: http://doc.m0n0.ch/quickstartsoekris/ under 3.2. Connecting to the Soekris serial console.

The null modem cable that I used had only pins 2 and 3 crossed, for the rest it was
different than the null modem cables described in http://www.nullmodem.com/NullModem.htm .
However, with HyperTerminal under Windows XP and the following settings, 2400 bits per second,
8 data bits, parity none, stop bits 1 and flow control hardware, I got some garbled output in the
HyperTerminal window.

Then I changed to the speed to 19200 bps, still garbled output.  Finally I found here
http://www.fozzee.net/wrap/ that the default speed in m0n0wall is 9600 bps.  When I entered
that in HyperTerminal for the serial connection to the router, I finally got the non-garbled boot
messages in the HyperTerminal window.

pfSense rocks. Thanks for making it. I like the traffic shaper very much.