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    Install from USB drive (working)

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • jimpJ Offline
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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      @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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            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            @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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              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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                  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
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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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                      qmax
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                      @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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                          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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                                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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                                    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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                                        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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                                            oilop9000
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                                            @jimp:

                                            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.

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