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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 ok…....

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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 ok…....

                    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:  "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 :(…..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 and  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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                                            mehov
                                            last edited by

                                            well i tried other SO and the boot from the USB works….

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