Fresh install for 24.03 (wrong image?)

johnpoz

@stephenw10 I will try the beta installer then.. And if something goes wrong I have the old school installer to fall back too.

Thanks!

But might be a good idea to change the name of the net installer, sure other users will have questions/concerns that it lists 24.02-beta2 on it as well.

stephenw10

@stephenw10 said in Fresh install for 24.03 (wrong image?):

We are renaming/numbering it to reduce confusion!

Hence ^.

anthonys

@stephenw10 said in Fresh install for 24.03 (wrong image?):

The memstick-ADI image is no longer built.

My ISP requires PPPoE (and also needs it presented on a VLAN).
But from the doco Online Network Installer

No support for PPP-based WANs such as PPPoE,

What to do?

johnpoz

@anthonys can you just click upgrade? If you need to install - tac sent me the image.. You can prob reach out to tac and say you need the non netinstaller because you have ppoe isp.

stephenw10

@anthonys said in Fresh install for 24.03 (wrong image?):

What to do?

You can still open a TAC ticket and get the legacy installer.
https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request

SwissSteph

Yesterday, I had an exchange with the support team. And the only answer I got was like this.

It seems that other people have had better luck than me in getting a 24.03 image to burn onto a USB stick as in the past.

My English is not good, maybe that's an explanation for not having also had a direct link like “johnpoz”...

For me, only "pfSense-plus-installer-24.02-BETA2-amd64-20240312-0600.img"

stephenw10

Hmm, what problem are you actually seeing?

You have downloaded the Net Installer image and cannot flash it to USB?

SwissSteph

@stephenw10

I have the “net” file, but I didn't put it on my USB key instead of the 23.09.1 image.

What bothers me is the fact that you need a network connection to “just” install an image completely.

My email exchange with support made me understand this, and no other solution was proposed (no direct link to the right image).

I think the idea of being able to obtain an image from your account is an excellent one. This way you don't bother support just for the image, and doing it yourself is practical. When support explained to me that I had to do this from my account, I did it straight away. It was only afterwards that I realized that it wasn't the image for my device alone, which was followed by an exchange of emails, to end up with only the “net” version.

stephenw10

If you have an install that cannot currently use the Net Installer (pppoe, arvm7, air-gapped etc) you can still get the legacy installer.

But there are a number of advantages with the Net Installer so I would use that if you can.
You can install Plus directly on custom hardware.
You can install several different Plus versions from the same installer image. Which you don't need to download a new recovery image at each release.
It can restore configs from several locations and automatically finds and offers them to you during the install.

SwissSteph

@stephenw10

I understand what you're saying, and if this is the “fashion” now, I'll follow “everyone else”.

Thank you for your intervention.