Installing pfsense on a soekris net-5501?
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Watch that you may need UFS2 support, not just UFS support.
The advantage of booting FreeBSD is that you will be able to read the file system. Then you can do something like "find /root/file/system -depth -print | cpio -pdm /my/backup/location" to take a full image of the files (and permissions). To restore you'd just reverse the process "find /my/backup/location -depth -print | cpio -pdm /root/file/system".
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Yeah, you're right. I note the most recent partimage tool (used by clonezilla) has "UFS support" in the changelog, but looking at what the autoconfigure tool requires, it wants libufs2. I think I'll wait until they have this working, and in the meantime, back it up your way. Thanks!
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Hi
Could you describe your procedure to install pfsense with all packages to hard disk (on soekris net5501)
Thanks
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Well I can describe how I did it :)
I set up af TFTP server on a Debian machine and then booted the Soekris (5501) from that machines NIC. There are many guides on the net describing how to setup a TFTP server. Iam not sure this is the easiest way but it worked perfectly for me.
I guess the easiest thing is to mount the harddrive in another machine, install PfSense on it and then put it back in the Soekris.
