Much thanks sir,
I'm sure this will give a bunch of us a jump start at designing our own
custom boxes.  Your image building website would be incredibly handy,
but I'm imagining it is also quite an undertaking....maybe not for
yourself, but I would probably end up shaking violently in a corner
after attempting such a project.

Thanks again,
--Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Kasper [mailto:mk at neon1 dot net] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:07 AM
> To: list at m0n0wall dot neon1 dot net
> Subject: [m0n0wall] m0n0BSD preview ("instant miniBSD")
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as promised, I have started working on m0n0BSD (= "instant 
> miniBSD"), and there are already some results:
> 
> http://neon1.net/temp/m0n0bsd-4.8-net45xx-std-20030504.img
> (upload capped to 300 kbps, you can also try 
> http://cable.neon1.net/temp/m0n0bsd-4.8-net45xx-std-20030504.img
> - alternate connection (180 kbps))
> 
> Download size: about 6 MB.
> 
> It's an image for net45xx', based on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, 
> that fits on 16 MB (or larger) CF cards. The kernel supports 
> IPsec (FAST_IPSEC), HiFn (for the crypto accelerator cards) 
> and wireless (awi/wi/an). ipfilter, ipfw, netgraph and BRIDGE 
> are compiled as modules.
> 
> The goal for m0n0BSD is simply to provide CF-card-ready 
> binary images of stripped (but not minimalistic) FreeBSD as a 
> convenience to those who just want to give FreeBSD a quick 
> try or who don't like working through the miniBSD guide over 
> and over again as new versions of FreeBSD are released. There 
> will be no GUI, of course - that's where m0n0wall fits in 
> (for less exotic applications).
> 
> Custom patches: disabled annoying (and pointless, in this 
> case) warnings in sys/ev/wi/if_wi.c and 
> sys/kern/subr_diskslice.c and added a patch for the ipfilter 
> MSS clamping bug. /etc/rc has been modified to reload rc.conf 
> after calling the diskless boot script. rc.diskless2 has been 
> modified and renamed to rc.m0n0wall.
> 
> The rest is pretty much standard FreeBSD (everything compiled 
> with -march=i486).
> 
> I also went to the trouble of writing a shell script for the 
> initial setup that handles the following things:
> 
> - hostname
> - pccardd configuration (on/off)
> - root password
> - network interface configuration
>   - interface list from ifconfig -> should work regardless of which
>     interfaces are present
>   - static IP address or DHCP
>   - can handle wireless interfaces (SSID/channel/hostap/IBSS/WEP)
>   - default gateway
>   - IP forwarding on/off
> - DNS servers
> - SSH key generation
> 
> The script is automatically run on the first boot, but can be 
> executed again later with sh /etc/rc.initial.
> 
> There is no homepage or documentation on m0n0BSD at the 
> moment, but that will change as soon as I get some feedback 
> on whether m0n0BSD is going in the right direction.
> 
> Install as follows:
> 
> UNIX:
> gzcat m0n0bsd-4.8-net45xx-std-20030504.img | dd of=[CF raw 
> device] bs=16k
> 
> Windows:
> get physdiskwrite 0.2: 
> http://neon1.net/m0n0wall/downloads/physdiskwr> ite-0.2.zip
> and 
> drag the .img file onto physdiskwrite.exe
> 
> 
> (physdiskwrite 0.2 can now automatically detect gzipped 
> images and uncompress them on-the-fly)
> 
> I have decided to name the images .img (and not .bin.gz) 
> because some browsers try to decompress them while 
> downloading (most notably Internet Explorer for Windows). 
> m0n0wall images are going to be named .img in the future, too.
> 
> Note that the image contains just the programs that I deemed 
> necessary (more or less the file list from the miniBSD 
> guide), and the filesystem is pretty much full. If you have a 
> bigger CF card and want to add other programs, use disklabel 
> and growfs.
> 
> I'd really like to modularize m0n0BSD and provide something 
> like packages for software that is commonly used on net45xx 
> (like MPD, DHCPD, racoon, perl, zebra, etc.). I'm still 
> thinking of a way to do that. I could make a web-based image 
> building system where you could put your custom image 
> together with a few clicks (probably powered by PHP), provide 
> several images with different options (and CF card sizes), or 
> release a "base" CF image and separate packages that can be 
> installed over the network on the net45xx. I like the first 
> approach best, but then I'll have to solve the bandwidth 
> problem (I don't think I can host it all on my feeble 512 kbps.
> ;)
> 
> On a side note, I went crazy and registered the domain 
> m0n0.ch (and m0n0.com as well, just for the sake) to host 
> m0n0BSD and m0n0wall in the future. I have a nice little 
> machine (AMD 1.7 GHz) around that I will put to new use as a 
> server (running FreeBSD of course) soon.
> 
> Please let me know what you think!
> 
> - Manuel
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: list dash unsubscribe at m0n0wall dot neon1 dot net
> For additional commands, e-mail: list dash help at m0n0wall dot neon1 dot net
>