Why freebsd 8.3?
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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? -
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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@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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@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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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 Even if it built, the patches would be old/out of date, mostly left in case we decided to pick it up again.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.
