Install from USB drive (working)
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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.
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decompress the file, and write it to a USB stick, same as any other.
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Hi!
i've noticed that there are pfsense 2.0 img files from snapshot server, does this mean that we only have to do de "dd" step to install pfsense 2.0 in a usb stick and then run the setup from it?
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Yes, dd the decompressed image (or gzip … | dd, check the directions for embedded images on the doc wiki) and then boot from the USB stick.
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thanks jimp, sorry for the repeated post.
regards
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Got the image installed on my USB drive however the boot hangs at the following.
GEOM: da0: geometry does not match the label (16h, 63s != 255h,63s)
GEOM: da0: media size does not match the label.EDIT: Selected Option 3 to boot from usb device on startup and issue resolved.
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I've tried gzip -d then DD on the memstick 2.0.img, the 2.0 Nanobsd.img, as well as the usbinstall.img from farther up and I keep getting "no bootable partition on table." i've also tried multiple usb sticks with no luck… any suggestions?... I've never installed pfsense and trying to go with a usb drive to not have to buy a CDrom.... any help would be much appreciated.
Here is the process I went through:
**C:\MakeUSB>gzip pfSense-memstick-2.0-RC1-i386-20110226-1530.img -d
C:\MakeUSB>dd if=pfSense-memstick-2.0-RC1-i386-20110226-1530.img of=\.\d: bs=1k
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin jn@it.swin.edu.auThis program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
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253512+0 records out/jn@it.swin.edu.au**-Tried it on machine and got the "no bootable partition on table"
**C:\MakeUSB>gzip pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-2g-nanobsd.img -d
C:\MakeUSB>gzip pfSense-2.0-RC1-512mb-i386-20110226-1633-nanobsd.img -d
C:\MakeUSB>dd if=pfSense-2.0-RC1-512mb-i386-20110226-1633-nanobsd.img of=\.\d:
bs=1k
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin jn@it.swin.edu.auThis program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
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-Tried it on machine and got the "no bootable partition on table"
same for usbinstall.
