Install pfSense remotely in datacenter
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Anyone have success developing methods for installing pfSense remotely, specifically into a datacenter where there is no physical access to the server? I am wanting to spin up a Rackspace Cloud instance with pfSense, and route all VPN traffic through this instance to my other cloud servers.
I do have access to rescue mode with Rackspace Cloud, and was wondering if I could somehow burn a pfSense image to the hard drive while in rescue mode, and then boot back into pfSense. Problem is, I don't have anyway of responding to prompts before the box boots, so I'd need to complete items like configuring interfaces in a different fashion.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Haven't seen any solutions when Googling and searching this forum, but just thought I would ask anyway.
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So your wanting to reinstall your cloud hosted virtual machine with an instance of pfsense? I believe they you can FreeBSD on the RS cloud, you could install freebsd9 and maybe lay pfsense on top of that perhaps.
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Almost impossible to do this. Certainly that would be impractical.
There is too greater difference between pfSense and FreeBSD to simply lay in on top.Steve