So… maybe someone will laugh and call me an idiot, but for about a day or so I couldn’t figure out how to PXE boot FreeBSD 6.x. I wanted to do this without having a FreeBSD install (in fact, I wanted to do it from my Macbook Pro) which made is particularly interesting.

I had purchased a Soekris Net4826 to replace my dead Apple Airport Extreme access point (sure, a new Airport was cheaper, but the Soekris is just soooo much more fun). I kind of knew what I would do, I would download either m0n0wall or pfSense, burn it to the on board compact flash, and go about my daily life. This is my second Soekris box; I already own a Soekris Net4801 which I use for my primary internet gateway.

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This is the beginnings of my Network Attached Storage (NAS) Project. I had this idea for a few years, but the money for it went to other things. The main purpose of this box is to provide access to my media (movies, music, etc) along with documents and such to any computer in the house. The idea is to use FreeNAS for this box, but I have found FreeNAS is somewhat lacking, so I need to hack up some of it’s code to be a little more versatile (don’t worry, changes will be submitted back to the project).

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