From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 14:41:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A86516A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:41:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from themango.org (64-151-23-134-dhcp-kc.everestkc.net [64.151.23.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470F143D1F for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:40:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luke@themango.org) Received: from [10.2.2.12] (ariel-lan.themango.org [10.2.2.12]) by themango.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7933A4513A; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:40:55 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <48BA4885-5431-11D8-A483-000A959CF11A@balius.com> References: <48BA4885-5431-11D8-A483-000A959CF11A@balius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8AEBA897-543E-11D8-A1AB-000A95F07EF4@themango.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Luke Johannsen Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:41:00 -0600 To: Chad M Stewart X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a custom release, not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:41:00 -0000 On Jan 31, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Chad M Stewart wrote: > > I'm starting down the road of creating a firewall appliance using > FreeBSD. An automated, hands off installation is a key component of > this. > > I have to start somewhere and figured I would start with building my > own "release". Using that as an exercise to become familiar with how > the process works and then start to customize the install and > subsequent image that is put down on the disk. > > Thank you, > Chad I've never tried what you're doing though I've thought about it many times so I don't think I'll be much help on the specifics. But during one of my many times of searching the web for just such a thing I came across this fellows website and seems to be very well documented and up to date. http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html Also this project may be of some interest to you too. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ Both are intended to be used with this hardware but also can be customized with any "regular" computer too. http://www.soekris.com/ Hope this helps. Cheers, Luke