Installing from USB drive in Windows- UPDATED
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Thanks!
confirmed working
this is by far the easiest and cleanest method :D
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Working like a charm here as well with pfSense-memstick-2.0-RC3-i386-20110621-1650.img
I'd prefer to use this method over the CLI physdiskwrite method anytime, thanks!
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It works much quicker too!
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You might want to mention that you should decompress the .img.gz first so it's just an .img file - That's one advantage that physdiskwrite has, it can write from a compressed image. Last I tried it, which has been a while, Win32 Disk Imager didn't support that. (But it's superior in just about every other way)
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Updated! Thank you.
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7-Zip is small, fast, and Free. No need for WinRAR :-)
http://www.7-zip.org/
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Anyone else notice it bricking their flash drives? After I'm finished I cant get Windows to reformat it so that I can use it again.
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Anyone else notice it bricking their flash drives? After I'm finished I cant get Windows to reformat it so that I can use it again.
Your flash drive isn't bricked. It just needs to have the partions removed. Unfortunatly, Windows isn't much help in the GUI. You can command line remove the partitions in windows or use parted/Gparted in a linux Distro.
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In case you are wondering how on Windows:
cmd -> diskpart -> list disk -> select disk #yourflashdrive -> clean
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Thanks, that works.
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;D
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This worked using the 2.1 image from jimp also. You can find it here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43238.0.html -
In case you are wondering how on Windows:
cmd -> diskpart -> list disk -> select disk #yourflashdrive -> clean
by GUI
Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management..
find the USB stick drive listed, usually by the bottom of the list. Click on existing partition, right mouse click and select "delete.." from menu.. then create new partition by right clicking on raw drive volume and selecting "New Simple Volume"..
