I posted asking about Atom processors last week and ended up taking the advice
of going with the Alix 6B2 kit (not Atom). Just unpacked it, installed embedded
onto the flash, booted it up and it's up and running. Very nice solution
pulling in less than 3Watts without a load.
Next step was to se
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Chuck Mariotti wrote:
> I posted asking about Atom processors last week and ended up taking the
> advice of going with the Alix 6B2 kit (not Atom). Just unpacked it, installed
> embedded onto the flash, booted it up and it's up and running. Very nice
> solution
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Chuck Mariotti wrote:
> Next step was to setup the packages... surprise, surprise... no packages
> available for embedded. I'm very sad about this. All I wanted was IDS/Snort
> and maybe SpamD.
>From a shell;
echo pfSense > /etc/platform
reboot
Install packages
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:
> Run a full install on 2 or 4 GB CF. That's what I do, as well as
> several other developers. Theoretically it'll kill the flash, in
> reality, many of us have been doing this for years and I don't know of
> anyone that's killed a CF.
Wear l
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Morgan Reed wrote:
>
> From a shell;
> echo pfSense > /etc/platform
> reboot
>
> Install packages
>
> From a shell;
> echo embedded > /etc/platform
> reboot
>
> Done.
>
That will work for some packages, but not all. Embedded runs ro on
mounts that some packages n
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:
> That will work for some packages, but not all. Embedded runs ro on
> mounts that some packages need rw on. Also takes very little to run
> out of space on the CF unless you do a full install to a 1-4 GB card,
> which will give you plenty of
ssage-
From: David Rees [mailto:dree...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:25 PM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option -
very sad
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:
> That will work for some pac
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Morgan Reed wrote:
>
> Wear leveling is your friend. If your CF card is significantly larger
> than the data stored on it you'll get longer life out of it.
>
Definitely seems to be the case, even when using half the CF.
> Catch is getting it installed on the 4G
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Chuck Mariotti wrote:
> And to clarify, when people are saying "full install", do they mean the
> regular CD-ROM (pfSense-1.2.2-LiveCD-Installer.iso).
>
> As well, my CF card is 512MB, does a base install work on something this
> size? (I'd hate to blow more mon
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:
> That will work for some packages, but not all. Embedded runs ro on
> mounts that some packages need rw on. Also takes very little to run
> out of space on the CF unless you do a full install to a 1-4 GB card,
> which will give you plenty of
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10:11PM -0500, Chuck Mariotti wrote:
> I posted asking about Atom processors last week and ended up taking the
> advice of going with the Alix 6B2 kit (not Atom). Just unpacked it, installed
> embedded onto the flash, booted it up and it's up and running. Very nice
> s
work, too. Won't probably boot from one, though.
> Chuck
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: David Rees [mailto:dree...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:25 PM
> To: support@pfsense.com
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embe
ideas on how to solve this?
Regards,
Chuck
-Original Message-
From: cbuech...@gmail.com [mailto:cbuech...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Buechler
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:30 PM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option -
ita Systems LLC
-Original Message-
From: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:cmario...@xunity.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:40 AM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Packages with pfSense embedded not an option
- very sad
I have gone out and purchased a SanDisk 8GB CF Card.
Us
Le Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:40:05 -0500, Chuck Mariotti a
écrit :
> I have gone out and purchased a SanDisk 8GB CF Card.
>
> Using VMWare Workstation, mounted the CF as physical drive. Booted off CD,
> ran install to disk option, all defaults to install to CF (chose Embedded
> Kernel). Shut down, i
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