Thank you for the assistance, 
Since the last email I installed FreeBSD 4.9, installed the ports I needed,
unpacked the .img using your script, edited my configs as I wanted, and
repack them into an image (also using your script). When I try to recreate
the image with -x it runs and creates an image file, I can load this image
to a CF card using the physdisk util on Windows, but I never get any
response from the firewall for a ping / etc after a reboot. I did not change
anything significant, as I just wanted to test.  Any ideas? 

Jason P Jones
MCSE+I,MCT,CCNA,LCP,CCA,CNA,CIWA,INET+,Network+,A+
Integracon Technologies
865.382.7400  

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Iedema [mailto:iedemam at pluto dot dsu dot edu] 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:22 PM
To: 'Jason P Jones'; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Editing rootfs image and Creating CF image


> Hello,
> I'm interested in editing the downloaded rootfs image and
> then creating a CF
> .img file- just like the downloadable one, for the soekris 
> net45xx boxes. I
> will be doing this on either Gentoo or W/XP. I do like the ease of the
> physdiskwrite utility, so Windows instructions would be 
> handy, but I use
> linux just as much so... 

As far as I know there is no way to unpack and edit the images in windows.
My Linux stupidity is showing through here, but if there is a 'vn' device
equivalent then a quick edit of my unpacker script should get you going
(http://mrkasai.undergroup.com/m0n0wall).  Otherwise I would find a tired
old box and throw FreeBSD 4.9 on it.  That's the easiest route, and the
route the hackers guide
(http://m0n0.ch/wall/hack/) was written for.

Hope that helps,
--Michael I.