Re: Building a custom release, not working
From: Luke Johannsen (luke_at_themango.org)
Date: 01/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:41:00 -0600 To: Chad M Stewart <cms@balius.com>
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
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