Install from USB drive (working)
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 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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 That worked perfectly. You should sticky this post. Jason 
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 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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 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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 Another note: Instead of DD, you could also have used physdiskwrite/physgui, or Image Writer for Windows. Jim 
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 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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 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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 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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 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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 Im also havin some problem with decompressing this. Could anyone decompress and reupload as .rar please? 
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 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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 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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 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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 Did you try downloading the link in a different browser? Or right clicking the link and choosing "Save Link As"? 
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 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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 That is normal. Windows won't see the partition, because Windows doesn't understand FreeBSD's file system (ufs2) 
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 oh yeah,my bad,but i cant boot from the pen yet :( 
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 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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 well i tried other SO and the boot from the USB works…. 
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 Every other file distributed by pfSense is gzip compressed. It shouldn't be any harder to decompress than any other image. I have seen pfSense-memstick-2.0-BETA4-20101121-1828.img.gz from snapshot repo, please confirm how can be pfsense 2 installed from usb stick please. 
