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    Installing pfSense on 2010 macmini

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      rks
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      I have a 2010 mac mini Core 2 duo 2.4GHz with 2 Gb ram. Was trying to install pfSense on it but it's crashing. Any thoughts if it is supported or the steps i can take to troubleshoot it?

      Attaching a picture of screen where the installation crashed. I am using Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter for the 2 NIC.

      TIA

      IMG_6954.jpg

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Can't really tell from just that but most likely it doesn't agree with that hardware. If you type bt at that prompt it will print a backtrace which would (hopefully) narrow down the cause of the crash considerably.

        You might have better luck with a 2.5.0 snapshot

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        • NollipfSenseN
          NollipfSense @rks
          last edited by NollipfSense

          @rks I am not sure what you're doing when I see that extraction on the screen. I can tell you that, having installed both pfSense 2.4.4 and 2.5 on a 2011 Mac Mini server, it is possible. You should download the pfSense for flash drive, then get balenaEtcher for Mac and use that to flash the pfSense onto your jump drive ... you'll find that easy than trying to use Terminal which creates issues.

          Once you have your jump drive with pfSense, connect it to your Mac Mini and boot it by holding down the option key while you're startup ... it will take a few minutes to boot fully. Once the installer appears, you can let the installer do the work; for example, format the hard-drive and install pfSense. Those thunderbolt adapter uses Broadcom NIC ... I ended up getting a used thunderbolt PCI enclosure and put in an Intel i350 NIC for IDS/IPS.

          pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
          pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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