On an appliance I reinstalled with pfSense I was facing a problem booting the system from an usb stick.

The system was not able to mount the partition correctly because it wasn't present at that time. For me this looks like a timing Problem. The system booted without a problem …

Had some trouble booting a usb stick with FreeNAS 8.0.4.

The error message said: ROOT MOUNT ERROR

The problem was that the usb stick was to small. You should use a stick > 2GB. Some of the 2GB sticks are working some not. If you have this problem your …

pfSense 2.0 is finally released now. This is quite a nice peace of software.

A lot of functionality like:

• VPN Gateways: OpenVPN, IPsec, PPTP
• IP and Portfiltering
• Webmanagement
• FreeBSD based
• Memory stick version available

Nginx is a real fast and easy to configure webserver. It can work in proxy mode like squid and handles much traffic nicely.

If you want to install this great webserver on FreeBSD just use the ports collection and run the following commands:

cd /usr/ports/www/nginx

make install …

Linux became the standard operation system for servers in the Internet over the last years. Most web server, gateways or mail server are built on this stable and well developed OS. But there is an

other giant in the backround working. FreeBSD has an long history and is known for …

If you want to run tor on FreeBSD 8.0 you first have to update your port tree. If you not used with port please see the FreeBSD documentation.

This should fetch and install the newsest port tree:

portsnap fetch

portsnap extract

Now we need to install openssl from port …