Recording .ISO package to CD! Help!
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Hello,
I'm totaly newbie with pfSense. I found it today looking for two WAN links. I downloaded is.gz Live CD but what to do with it? It's gz format. I can extract it with Winrar. Would that works? How to burn iso.gz file? Can I extract it with winrar and than ???
I'm windows xp user. I don't know a lot about Linux and I don't have any pc running Linux.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
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pfSense is not Linux. It's Based on FreeBSD.
If you dont know what a specific filetype is:
http://www.google.com
and google for it.when you decompress the archive with whatever you decompress you'd find out that it contains a .iso file.
if you google some more you find out how to burn an iso.
after that i suggest you read the HOWTO's that are around on how to setup pfSense. -
An ISO file is am image file that can be burned to CD using CD Burning Software (Nero has a "burn image" option for this, for others, either search the internet or the help file for your CD burning software).
A .GZ file is a gzip archive. I have Cygwin installed and unzipped this to an ISO file by starting a cygwin command window and using the gunzip command.
I found this issue a bit confusing because winrar seemed to uncompress all the files contained in the ISO, not just extracting the ISO image file. One of the downloads for pfsense may also be an ISO file with a .GZ extension.
I've been working with the 1.2-RC2 version which does gunzip to an ISO file and can then be burned to CD as described above.
Hope this helps.
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Don't confuse the boy. If it's got a gz extension or similar, use WinRAR, as you said. If that gives you a useless file, then you probably downloaded the files meant to patch pfsense (like a firmware upgrade) rather than the actual LiveCD ISO.
In any case, once you find yourself with an ISO, go and download ImgBurn. It's the best burning (and image creation) tool for Windows and WINE, bar none. Use that to burn the ISO to a disc, then boot up your machine with the disk in, and boot off the disk. Shouldn't case you any trouble at all mate.
