Just wasted two hours of my life on reinstalling :-(
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Suggestion: update the wiki.
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I have an Intel machine as my main pfSense. I bought a Dell R200 for 50 EUR as a backup machine (WIFE explodes when internet is gone).
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‘Been posting a thread yesterday and today about the buggy OpenVPN constantly disconnecting.
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Tried the Dell today. Same settings: everything works.
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So it’s the upgrade process in pfSense that is buggy; somewhere from 2.0.x all the way down to 2.1.5 stuff gets mixed up (I know, everytime I did an upgrade stuff broke).
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So, wanted to do a fresh reinstall of the first box (I can’t import a backup, because then I will import the crap which is in there –- somewhere).
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Downloaded the LiveCD (yes, verified the SHA of course ;D ). Burned it to an USB. CRAP: the stupid thing sees the installed pfSense, and keeps on booting that.
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Tried 16412 different ‘emergency boot disks’ to format the drive. None of them worked.
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Finally got some sense and downloaded the pfSense-memstick-2.1.5-RELEASE-amd64-20140825-0744.img.
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Installed right now.
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The wiki doesn’t mention this.
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Why is it that the ‘LiveCD/installer’ doesn’t install when there is an existing installation on the HDD, yet the ‘memstick’ does install? What’s the difference?
Can I suggest:
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Update the wiki to make this more clear?
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CD's are '90's material, it is 2014 now :P
( ;D )
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Sorry, copy/paste apparently doesn't work too well.
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Which page are you referring to?
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Which page are you referring to?
This one, Sir Steve:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense
:)
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Fact is: A CD is still enough to install pfSense, I used a RW CD just some days ago for this purpose.. :-p
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Sometimes older methods are the most reliable. ;)
I agree though, that page could use some editing. The information is all there it just doesn't seem logically laid out. There have been a huge number of improvements and additions to the wiki in the run up to 2.2. This might well see some editing.Steve
