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    Install from USB drive (working)

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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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
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                          @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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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            It may be your BIOS. I have encountered many systems over the years that would either not boot from USB, or would only do so unreliably.

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