Unable to install pfSense on ESXi
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First off, I know virtually nothing about networking and virtualization, but please don't tell me not to bother. I just want/need to finish this.
I have Vsphere installed and somewhat configured.
The server has two SSDs: one on which the Vsphere itself resides, and the other where VMs will be.
I read several articles about installing pfSense on ESXi, but I am unable to get the installation going.
I created the actual VM just like the articles said, uploaded the installation ISO to the first SSD, booted the VM up and... no matter what I do it just attempts to boot from network (VMXNET3).
In the BIOS I changed boot order to CD first, but it makes no difference.Does anyone know right away what am I doing wrong?
I'll provide as much additional information as I can (no idea if this is enough - probably not).
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Huh? Don't go crazy, just open the VMRC console on your machine for this VM, mount the .ISO and it will boot from there.
-Rico
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@rico said in Unable to install pfSense on ESXi:
Huh? Don't go crazy, just open the VMRC console on your machine for this VM, mount the .ISO and it will boot from there.
-Rico
I forgot to mention I have built a standalone server. This is not running on my machine.
Also, one thing I noticed is that the datastore iso in the VM's settings keeps unchecking the "connect" checkbox, which is probably the reason it's not booting, but I have no idea why.
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Consider that the download images are packed.
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@viragomann said in Unable to install pfSense on ESXi:
Consider that the download images are packed.
...ok.
Now I feel retarded. I thought I was downloading an actual ISO, and now that I re-checked it's indeed an archive of some sort.
LOL!
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I would have thought that ESXi would automatically filter out any non-ISO files. It really let you pick the gzip file as an ISO?
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@kom
No, Octopuss mentioned anyway above, that he wasn't able to connect the file. -
@kom said in Unable to install pfSense on ESXi:
I would have thought that ESXi would automatically filter out any non-ISO files. It really let you pick the gzip file as an ISO?
Yup it did. Weird!
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@viragomann But that was after letting him select the .gz in the first place. It was smart enough to know it can't connect to a gzip, but not smart enough to filter out all non-ISO files in the image picker dialog?
I just tried it myself with ESXi 6.7 and it doesn't show any non-ISO files. I couldn't select one even if I wanted to.
Bizarre.
