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    • _Adrian__
      _Adrian_
      last edited by

      @_Adrian_:

      mkdir /home

      mkdir /home/pfsense

      git clone git://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools.git tools

      git clone git://github.com/pfsense/freesbie2.git freesbie2

      Got it !!!
      Make sure you are in # /home/pfsense and not in # /root !!

      Moving along…

      If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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      • _Adrian__
        _Adrian_
        last edited by

        And stuck again…
        https://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso#hn_4._Ensure_FreeBSD_sources_are_present

        Even after editing /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
        From:

        *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org

        To:

        *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org

        I still get the following Error :

        Name Lookup failure for "fastest_cvsup -c tld -q": hostname nor servname provided, or not known

        Will retry at xx:xx:xx (time)

        If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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        • _Adrian__
          _Adrian_
          last edited by

          Quickly rolled up my sleeves and started into seeing if its my network or the host…
          And what do you know :P

          C:\Users\Admin>ping cvsup.freebsd.org

          Pinging bsn0-0.edmz.cwu.edu [72.233.193.64] with 32 bytes of data:
          Request timed out.
          Request timed out.
          Request timed out.
          Request timed out.

          Ping statistics for 72.233.193.64:
              Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

          I guess this ones down :/
          Next…

          C:\Users\Admin>ping cvsup3.us.freebsd.org

          Pinging xyz.csail.mit.edu [128.31.0.28] with 32 bytes of data:
          Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=651ms TTL=51
          Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=51
          Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=51
          Reply from 128.31.0.28: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=51

          Ping statistics for 128.31.0.28:
              Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
          Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
              Minimum = 108ms, Maximum = 651ms, Average = 244ms

          Looks like I have some editing to do again…
          Hope this works :/

          If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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          • _Adrian__
            _Adrian_
            last edited by

            And still nothing >:(

            DEV / MODS…

            Any input ???

            If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              @_Adrian_:

              I just got some of the free time i wanted so bad LOL ( Got laid off )

              Ouch!  :(

              So you're trying to build 2.2 effectively?

              It's not possible to build 2.1 on top of FreeBSD 10. Most of the work that has gone into the 2.2 branch is to allow it to be built on 10.

              Not that I've tried myself of course!  ;)

              Steve

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              • _Adrian__
                _Adrian_
                last edited by

                Yeah… I'm trying my FreeBsd skills out LOL

                I figured and try my hand at a 2.2 build with the OFED Stack

                If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                • _Adrian__
                  _Adrian_
                  last edited by

                  Well… some progress is made !
                  Last night I was too tired and hopped up on Mountain Dew Voltage LOL

                  I was using

                  csup -h fastest_cvsup -c tld -q /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile

                  This morning i looked closer to the Wiki and saw this…

                  Some ports require sources in /usr/src to build correctly.

                  So instead really should have been using this

                  csup -h fastest_cvsup -c tld -q /usr/src

                  Now I get the following message

                  Release not specified for collection "s"

                  I guess im on the right track …
                  Moving on and omitting the message for now LOL

                  If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                  • _Adrian__
                    _Adrian_
                    last edited by

                    Well.. so far so good…
                    I choose the RELENG_8_3 :D

                    Right now its at :

                    Obtaining FreeBSD Sources RELENG_8_3-supfile. . .

                    Keeping fingers crossed and hopeing it works !!

                    If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Trying and failing is better than not trying at all. You've got me beat already.  :)

                      Steve

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                      • _Adrian__
                        _Adrian_
                        last edited by

                        DONE !!
                        Woohohohooo

                        Not a single error too !!

                        Moving onto Step 5.2A…

                        Now on 5.2B

                        If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                        • _Adrian__
                          _Adrian_
                          last edited by

                          Ugh… errors galore !!!

                          However...

                          Plan for failure
                          It is expected that the first try to build the ports, and the first try to build an ISO will fail, but subsequent attempts work. This is because certain parts expect files or binaries to be present that get built on the first run but not fully used until the second. This may get fixed eventually, but because the workaround is easy (just run the build again), it's not a priority.

                          I ran it again and still full of errors…
                          guessing thats due to V10 but i mainly think its because of this first initial error:

                          Operation ./build_pfPorts.sh has started at Sun Jan 26 12:26:30 MST
                            –> Preparing for pfPorts build buildports.RELENG_2_1
                            --> WARNING! We are about to run make includes.
                            --> Press CTRL-C to abort this operation. . . . .
                          ==> Starting make includes operation. . .
                          make: "/usr/pfSensesrc/src/Makefile" line 178: warning : Couldn't read shell's output for "find /usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s"
                          make[2]: "/usr/pfSensesrc/src/Makefile" line 178: warning : Couldn't read shell's output for "find /usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s"
                          make[2]: "/usr/pfSensesrc/src/Makefile" line 178: warning : Couldn't read shell's output for "find /usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s"

                          ==> Compiling pfPorts. . .

                          Executing Build ports.RELENG_2_1
                          Setting ports List : '/home/pfSense/tools/builder_scripts/../builder_scripts/conf/pfPorts/buildports.RELENG_2_1'
                          Setting MAKEJ_ports (-j) to ' '
                          Setting ports make.conf: '/tmp/pfPorts_make.conf'

                          After this everything is a catastrophe :/

                          Build [PACKAGE] (filename). . . Failed to build. Error log in /tmp/pfPorts/buildlogs/[PACKAGE]

                          If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                          • _Adrian__
                            _Adrian_
                            last edited by

                            After a bit of messing around I got to menu.sh and found that there is an option that's not displayed on the wiki…
                            RELENG_10_0

                            Also edited and instead of merging with head I forced it to merge with 8.3
                            I Will try again...

                            Right now its at
                            " Obtaining FreeBSD sources RELENG_10_0-supfile. . . "

                            If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                            • ?
                              A Former User
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for posting your progress on this.

                              I'm interested in building for freeBSD 10, for the improved Xen support that 10 has.

                              I just started downloading a v10 ISO to set up a build environment.

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                              • _Adrian__
                                _Adrian_
                                last edited by

                                No luck yet…
                                Just chasing my tail here... I'm pretty close, but something is causing the build to fail.
                                So will have to keep poking at it until I either figure it out or someone drops in with a few words of wisdom...

                                If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                                  phil.davis
                                  last edited by

                                  After a bit of messing around I got to menu.sh and found that there is an option that's not displayed on the wiki…
                                  RELENG_10_0

                                  Since FreeBSD 10 and pfSense 2.2 is brand new, the detail of the build instructions in the WiKi is going to talk about (FreeBSD 8.1 and pfSense 2.0.n) or (FreeBSD 8.3 and pfSense 2.1.n). So you will definitely have to always change anything like that, and use an educated guess to do a similar thing for (FreeBSD 10 and pfSense 2.2). And then work out what underlying stuff has changed in some non-obvious way also (either in FreeBSD itself, or the way it is built for pfSense).
                                  Once the devs actually have a reasonable (FreeBSD 10 and pfSense 2.2) build themselves then I'm sure the WiKi will get updated, and there will be public snapshots.

                                  As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
                                  If I helped you, then help someone else - buy someone a gift from the INF catalog http://secure.inf.org/gifts/usd/

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                                  • _Adrian__
                                    _Adrian_
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks for the input phil.davis !

                                    From what read / heard 2.2 will be built on V9 not on V10.
                                    Mainly I'm after a running OFED stack…

                                    If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                                      phil.davis
                                      last edited by

                                      From what read / heard 2.2 will be built on V9 not on V10.

                                      pfSense 2.2 is definitely now based on FreeBSD 10 (there will not be any pfSense for FreeBSD 9).
                                      You have already posted to this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,69856.0.html - which has a few people interested and waiting for a useable FreeBSD 10 + pfSense 2.2 build to pop out.

                                      As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
                                      If I helped you, then help someone else - buy someone a gift from the INF catalog http://secure.inf.org/gifts/usd/

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                                      • _Adrian__
                                        _Adrian_
                                        last edited by

                                        Sorry…
                                        Today i just been off my rocker LOL

                                        I think tomorrow is a fresh start day... format and re-install everything from scratch.

                                        If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                                        • _Adrian__
                                          _Adrian_
                                          last edited by

                                          No updates as of yet…
                                          I have been spending my time on the minivan that needs a motor. Will probably get back on this on the weekend

                                          If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                                            PiBa
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                                            Maybe this will help someone :D
                                            But i could come to building an .iso
                                            These are the steps i did:

                                            
DISCLAIMER these steps seemed to work for me for testing purposes.
but i dont know if they are "correct" and wont contain serius issues.
use at your own risk !

Also i noticed after using the build image and going through the webgui installation wizard, at the last step a system panic occurs...
After rebooting and resetting the webgui (option 11), most stuff seams to work..
Im not sure if this is an issue caused by the early version and development progress on pfSense 2.2 or if it is caused by my steps..

install VirtualBox and configure a virtual machine like this:
 - disk 20GB
 - mem  1024 MB
 - cpu  2x
 - network: 1 bridged

0\. Install FreeBSD
install:  FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
	default key map
	options: lib32 ports src  NOT: doc,games
	disk:  automatic  (19GB disk / 1GB swap)

	-root pass: system
	-configure network interface 'em0' IPv4: dhcp
	-country: yours
	-services: sshd,dmpdev

	add users now? YES
		username: admin
		fullname: admin
		uid: <enter>logingroup: <enter>invite other groups: wheel
		class [default]: <enter>shell [sh]: <enter>home dir [/home/admin]: <enter>permissions default: <enter>password-based auth [yes]: <enter>empty/random: no
		pass: secret
	lockout[no]: <enter>another user: no

	## Final Configuration ##
		Exit
		Manual Configuration?: No
		reboot
## the system is now installed

	## to enable SSH login on console ##
		#become ROOT
		su -l
		#generate keys not needed: /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -A
		echo sshd_enable="YES" > /etc/rc.conf
		service sshd start

	## allow root to login over ssh (NEVER DO THIS on a production machine, only for testing/easy access)
		echo PermitRootLogin yes > /etc/ssh/sshd_config
		/etc/rc.d/sshd reload

	## SYSTEM NOW ENABLED for SSH root login ##
		login with PuTTY / SSH as root for running commands / WinSCP for editing and transfering files (use the root account to have access to everything)

# 0-a Update your FreeBSD Install
	mkdir -p /usr/src/crypto/openssl/ssl
	freebsd-update fetch
	freebsd-update install	

# 0-b Make sure your OS clock is accurate
	ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org

#### checking out ports / sources. ####
### 1\. Begin pfSense bootstrap by running these shell commands:
echo "WITHOUT_X11=yo" > /etc/make.conf
echo "OPTIONS_UNSET=X11" >> /etc/make.conf
echo "BATCH=yo" >> /etc/make.conf
mkdir -p /home/pfsense/pfSenseGITREPO /usr/pfSensesrc

### 2\. Grab ports and build GIT
portsnap fetch extract 
cd /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 && make depends install
cd /usr/ports/devel/git && make depends install
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup/ && make depends install
rehash   

### 3\. Continue on with the GIT repo checkouts:
cd /home/pfsense && git clone git://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools.git tools
cd /home/pfsense && git clone git://github.com/pfsense/freesbie2.git freesbie2
cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts && chmod a+rx *.sh

### 4.0 prepare some settings
echo ## Make sure to use the correct OS sources (otherwise applying patches will fail):
cd /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/svnup/
sed s,base/releng/8.3,base/releng/10.0, < svnup.conf > svnup.conf.new
sed s,base/stable/10,base/releng/10.0, < svnup.conf.new > svnup.conf.new2
sed s,svn.freebsd.org,svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org, < svnup.conf.new2 > svnup.conf

cd /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/
echo "export USE_SVN=yes" >> pfsense_local.sh
sed s,stable/10,release/10.0.0, < pfsense_local.sh > pfsense_local.sh.new
mv pfsense_local.sh.new pfsense_local.sh

echo ## allow ports to be build against the newly installed openssl WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes
cd /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfPorts/
sed s,WITH_OPENSSL_BASE,WITH_OPENSSL_PORT, < make.conf > make.conf.new
mv make.conf.new make.conf

### 4\. Ensure FreeBSD sources are present
cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion && make install clean
rehash
svn checkout https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/10.0/ /usr/src

cp -iprv /usr/src /usr/pfSensesrc/

### 5.1\. Set the version you would like to build, you can do this from ./menu.sh also.
cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts
./set_version.sh RELENG_10_0

### 5.2\. Invoke the Apply patches option
cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts
./apply_kernel_patches.sh

## 5.2a Ensure BSDInstaller is sound
rm -rf /home/pfsense/installer
cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts
scripts/get_bsdinstaller.sh ; scripts/rebuild_bsdinstaller.sh

## 5.2b Build pfPorts manually (optional)
	## when rebuilding ports, some ports want/need the base system openssl version..
	## deinstall openssl port:
cd /usr/ports/security/openssl
make deinstall
cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts
./build_pfPorts.sh
	## troubleshooting building ports, check the 'failure logs' in:  /tmp/pfPort/buildlogs/  (should be empty when building is done)
	## for an idea about progress, check current console output and log in buildlogs folder and 
	## check progress against the file /usr/home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfPorts/buildports.RELENG_2_2

## 5.3.0 to avoid error building cdrtools-3.00 "cc: error: no such file or directory: 'amd64'" while running build_iso.sh
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools
make install clean	

## 5.3 Invoke the Build ISO option (no matter what kind of image you want)
	## now start the compiling and building of memstick images and iso file

cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts
./build_iso.sh

## p.s. this message is normal: "/usr/local/pfsense-clone/usr: write failed, filesystem is full"
## Which is explained a few lines above that.: "Don't worry if you see a 'filesystem full' message here" 

## now cross your fingers and wait for the message to show it has finished building which should look like this:</enter></enter></enter></enter></enter></enter></enter></enter>

                                            p.s. if anyone knows some improvements to these steps please let me/us know!

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