Pfsense on fit-pc: success!
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I know that not a lot of people have tried this yet, but the fit-pc is just such a perfect platform for pfsense. I was able, through a lot of trial and error, to get pfsense up and running.
Bottom line:
liveCD, pxeboot, physdiskwrite don't work to get it installed on this platform. You have to remove the hard drive, put it in a desktop machine with a 2.5" to 3.5" ATA adapter, and install to the desktop machine. You then remove the drive and put it back into the fit-pc.
I put a few more details on fit-pc's forum here:
http://fit-pc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=794#794
In any event, one thing that this whole process showed me: pfsense is simply an extraordinary firewall compared to the competition. When I couldn't get pfsense to install using the liveCD, I figured I'd try some of the others. I gave Endian, Smoothwall, and IPCop a try. They aren't even close to the flexibility and ease-of-use of pfsense.
To the pfsense developers: thank you. You have done an absolutely fantastic job creating the best firewall on the planet.
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Are you sure its a good idea to install on one machine, then move the installed drive to another machine (the fit-pc)?
What if my PC is an Intel, and the fit-pc is an AMD (it is)? Would I end up with the wrong kernel installed? I don't know much about BSD, maybe it just uses a generic kerneal that runs on all CPUs???
I was very interested in using a fit-pc, but not if its a hassle to get installed.
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@zirconx:
What if my PC is an Intel, and the fit-pc is an AMD (it is)? Would I end up with the wrong kernel installed? I don't know much about BSD, maybe it just uses a generic kerneal that runs on all CPUs???
Does not matter, they use a generic kernel which runs on just about any half-way recent PC based hardware.