How to install pfsense on DigitalOcean droplet

Kevin45

No you will not be able to install PFSense since DO doesn't support a custom image install yet. However there is currently still a suggestion vote going on. They haven't replied on it yet, so I've got no idea if or when they will implement this.
I do have a tip for you; you can learn, try and mess with alot of things on a local VM. This isn't hard to make and you get alot of knowledge from it. You can try VirtualBox for example to create your VM, run a pfsense iso in it, and experiment with i.
You can run your webservices from DO. If you like to learn about linux and webservers I suggest you follow a tutorial of manual installation. However DO got a great feature called One-click Apps;
When you create a new droplet you can select this feature and have the droplet setup a complete environment for you. You can for example setup a LAMP, LEMP. Docker, Wordpress, Joomla environment. You just have to select it and it will automatically setup the droplet for you.

drcstang

@kevin45 said in How to install pfsense on DigitalOcean droplet:

No you will not be able to install PFSense since DO doesn't support a custom image install yet. However there is currently still a suggestion vote going on. They haven't replied on it yet, so I've got no idea if or when they will implement this.

Are you sure about that? I just uploaded the PFSense memory stick image installer to DO via their Custom Images page and created a new Droplet. It allowed me to do the install, I just had to create a new partition for the root file system. Then it went through the normal configuration steps. I haven't tested it in any way, but it appears to allow you to create a Droplet with PFSense.

stephenw10

Ooo, nice. Is that custom images part new then?

Steve

drcstang

@stephenw10 said in How to install pfsense on DigitalOcean droplet:

Ooo, nice. Is that custom images part new then?

According to this blog post, it appears they started supporting custom images in September. It's not a feature I've used or even looked for previously, I just happened to notice it in my DO console the other day, then I saw this thread.

Kevin45

@drcstang said in How to install pfsense on DigitalOcean droplet:

@stephenw10 said in How to install pfsense on DigitalOcean droplet:

Ooo, nice. Is that custom images part new then?

According to this blog post, it appears they started supporting custom images in September. It's not a feature I've used or even looked for previously, I just happened to notice it in my DO console the other day, then I saw this thread.

Didn't know about that, As I have tried it before September.

denitrosubmena

Anyone know how to get past this? the partition is different from the tutorial here https://squigly.blogspot.com/2018/02/running-pfsense-on-digitalocean-droplet.html

stephenw10

Set the mount point to / as it says. Since you can upload custom images you should just be able accept the default settings there. You don't need to do any of that stuff in the blog post any longer.

Steve

denitrosubmena

defaults do not work when you get to the partition part
even when i had / mount point it does not work

have you tried it before?

stephenw10

No I have never used DO, I don't have an account there to try.

denitrosubmena

Can someone explain why the pfsense installer is MBR and is default to this setup below?

Why not GPT?
Also pfsense is aksing to install on / mount but wont let me do anything...vtbd0 says device is busy and i can not do anything

Why is freebsd/pfsense this difficult to deal with? this is just basic installation..why is it making me do too much just to install?

denitrosubmena

finally got it to work with this life savior of a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k02MlP8B-FY

mgator

In my case it worked after I deleted all the partitions as in the guide and then created a new one (vtbd0s1) with partition vtbd0s1a having 24 GB and mounted in /