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    • R
      rnsc
      last edited by

      Trying to get my feet wet building pfsense, perhaps to make a custom installation CD.
      Following DevelopersBootStrapAndDevISO.

      First I installed FreeBSD 7.2 instead of 7.0 or 7.1 because that is what I understand 1.2.3 to be based on.  I did not create a jail because this is a single-use VM and it says "optional".

      Did step 1 box.
      Started step 2 box:

      portsnap fetch extract

      Looking up portsnap.ReeBSD.org mirrors… 5 mirrors found.
      Fetching public key from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... done.
      Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
      Fetching snapshot generated at Sat Jun 12 21:34:40 EDT 2010:
      fetch: http://portsnap6.FreeBSD.org/s/2bd2dff3334b040e1ab334ae3b359a4a1193228aa662bdd2df3334b040e1ab334ae3b359a4a119328aa66a060        2654  B  844 kBps
      Extracting snapshot... tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
      tar: snap: Not found in archive
      tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

      Long number may have been copied wrong (Manual) but I assume that this is not important to someone pointing out my ignorant error.

      Thanks.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        That sounds like it downloaded an incorrect file.

        Is this text box behind a proxy or portal of some kind? Or does it have direct access to the web? That file should be much larger than 2654 bytes.

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        • R
          rnsc
          last edited by

          Apologize.  It was blocked by my filter (dansguardian).  I will fix this and try again.

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