[Soekris] Installing pfSense onto a SSD equipped with a USB Aux Port.

[Luke Coletti]

[CROSSPOST FROM: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,16027.0.html]

I was pleasantly surprised that the GSkill 64GB SSD drive 
(FM-25S2S-64GB) I chose to use with a Soekris net5501 was recognized as 
a USB drive by the pfSense installer (option 99).

While I powered the drive via the Soekris I attached its USB 2.0 port to 
my desktop machine and then booted the pfSense CD.

http://www2.mbari.org/~coletti/dropbox/Misc/FM-25S2S-64GB_With_USB.JPG

After the installer completed I connected the drive to the SATA 
interface on the Soekris and powered it back up.

http://www2.mbari.org/~coletti/dropbox/Misc/FM-25S2S-64GB_With_SATA.JPG

The boot and swap partitions were not initially found but a simple 
change to the fstab entries (listed below) fixed that. OK, I made that 
sound a lot less frustrating than it actually was!

$ more /etc/fstab
# Device      Mountpoint   FStype   Options      Dump   Pass#
/dev/ad1s1a      /      ufs   rw      1   1
/dev/ad1s1b      none      swap   sw      0   0

After that it booted without any problem and everything has been running 
fine ever since.

http://www2.mbari.org/~coletti/dropbox/Misc/FM-25S2S-64GB_Installed_1_net5501.JPG.JPG

-ljc