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      Guest
      last edited by

      Hi
      Install FreeBSD 8.3 if you want to build pfSense 2.1…in freebsd Past Releases( http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ ), only 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4 exist.
      Why you have selected 8.3 version?
      Can i build pfsense iso image on freebsd 8.4?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        8.3 and 8.4 (not sure where you saw it  :-) are too new, they are not archived yet. Hence: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.3-RELEASE/

        8.3 was the most recent release in the 8 branch when 2.1 was being finalised. Initially it was built on 9.0 but the changes required to get everything working proved too extreme.

        Steve

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          Klaws
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          @amirkabir:

          Can i build pfsense iso image on freebsd 8.4?

          pfSense doesn't simply use plain vanilla FreeBSD. More than 100 patches are applied to 8.3 during the build process.

          Patches are available/maintained for 8.3, 9.0 and 10.0 only.

          Why do you want 8.4? If it's some driver or feature, it might be backported to 8.3 (or maybe already is).

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            zenny
            last edited by

            @Klaws:

            @amirkabir:

            Can i build pfsense iso image on freebsd 8.4?

            pfSense doesn't simply use plain vanilla FreeBSD. More than 100 patches are applied to 8.3 during the build process.

            Patches are available/maintained for 8.3, 9.0 and 10.0 only.

            Interesting. Is there any documentation that one can build pfSense image with either 9.0 or 10.0? It would be nice to know. Thanks!

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              Build? Maybe. Work? Probably not.

              The work on 9.x was abandoned. Even if it built, the patches would be old/out of date, mostly left in case we decided to pick it up again.

              The work on 10.x is still in progress. I don't believe it builds/works yet. That probably won't be good/stable until a lot farther into the 2.2 development cycle.

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