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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      flashman
      last edited by

      Thanks for the info. Do you have a link to the pfSense-1.2.3-usbinstall.img.gz file? I've searched for it, but I can't seem to find it.

      Thanks,
      Jason

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Give it a try:

        http://cvs.pfsense.org/~jimp/pfSense-1.2.3-usbinstall.img.gz

        Let me know if there are any issues.

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          nemesisUK
          last edited by

          Your welcome Flashman hope it will work for you just as good as it did for me.

          Jimp I didnt put a link to your file as i wasnt sure if you wanted this.

          Thanks

          Nem

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            @nemesisUK:

            Jimp I didnt put a link to your file as i wasnt sure if you wanted this.

            I moved it to a more public location :)

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              flashman
              last edited by

              That worked perfectly. You should sticky this post.

              Jason

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                nemesisUK
                last edited by

                Great it worked for you as well Flashman.

                Big thanks to Jimp though as he made the usb version i only added the howto to write to the usb stick :)

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  @nemesisUK:

                  Big thanks to Jimp though as he made the usb version i only added the howto to write to the usb stick :)

                  Edit your first post to include the url and a shout-out to me, and I'll sticky the thread. :-)

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    Another note: Instead of DD, you could also have used physdiskwrite/physgui, or Image Writer for Windows.

                    Jim

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                      rolmn
                      last edited by

                      I'm not able to decompress the .gz file. Is there anyting wrong with it ?

                      edit :
                      When using wget it was okโ€ฆ....

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        @rolmn:

                        I'm not able to decompress the .gz file. Is there anyting wrong with it ?

                        edit :
                        When using wget it was okโ€ฆ....

                        Some browsers (like Opera, and I think Safari on a Mac) will decompress the file as it downloads, but not rename it. Using wget/fetch is usually safer.

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                          Efonnes
                          last edited by

                          In many cases you can get around that by right-clicking the link and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" (whatever the browser has) instead of just opening the link normally.

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                            qmax
                            last edited by

                            @nemesisUK:

                            Run this command: ย "dd if=pfSense-1.2.3-usbinstall.img of=\.*g:* bs=1k"

                            where g: is the drive of the usb stick.

                            Exelent post is working

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                              w00t
                              last edited by

                              Im also havin some problem with decompressing this. Could anyone decompress and reupload as .rar please?

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                Every other file distributed by pfSense is gzip compressed. It shouldn't be any harder to decompress than any other image.

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                                  w00t
                                  last edited by

                                  @jimp:

                                  Every other file distributed by pfSense is gzip compressed. It shouldn't be any harder to decompress than any other image.

                                  @Efonne:

                                  In many cases you can get around that by right-clicking the link and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" (whatever the browser has) instead of just opening the link normally.

                                  Solved by doin this. :) totally missed that comment.

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                                    mehov
                                    last edited by

                                    hey guys i tried both dd and windiskimager, they write the image to the pendrive but at the moment to boot from it doesnt work :(โ€ฆ..any tips? thx

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      Did you try downloading the link in a different browser? Or right clicking the link and choosing "Save Link As"?

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                                        mehov
                                        last edited by

                                        yes i did that way too,i tried another pen too,no luck,when dd or diskimager finish i try to access to the pendrive andย  i say that isnt formated,is that normal?

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                                        • jimpJ
                                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                          last edited by

                                          That is normal. Windows won't see the partition, because Windows doesn't understand FreeBSD's file system (ufs2)

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                                            mehov
                                            last edited by

                                            oh yeah,my bad,but i cant boot from the pen yet :(

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