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    • klawzeusK
      klawzeus
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      I'm 99% sure I bit off more than I could chew with this project.

      I just bought a Dell PowerEdge T310 for my own home server and I'm attempting to install pfSense.

      • It wouldn't work from the bootable USB drive, (at least, not in the traditional sense) so
      • Seeing only one tutorial for this on youtube: (specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUZsuMIum7U&t=17s [turn down the volume. the music is obnoxious])
      • I attempted this, but I'm stuck in a Unified Server Configurator (not Lifecycle Controller)

      So, I'm wondering if anyone has a step-by-step that I might be able to follow...

      I'd like a server and a firewall, and I figured this was going to be easier.

      If I'm doing this completely wrong or if I've barked up the wrong tree with this setup, let me know!

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        How does the USB driver fail to boot? Which image are you using?

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        • klawzeusK
          klawzeus @stephenw10
          last edited by

          Thanks for the reply, @stephenw10.

          I used the image from https://www.pfsense.org/download/ last week Saturday.

          To clarify, booting from the USB worked, but instead of installing, it was first demanding to configure the ethernet ports. I configured bce1 for LAN and bce0 for WAN.

          After that, it attempted to connect to Netgear servers and failed.

          I tried probably 10 times, trying various connections, reversing the LAN and WAN ports, hard resets (5 min power cycles on modem) even hardwiring my laptop to the port(s) [both ways] to make sure it was working.

          While I had successful connection, I was not able to progress beyond pfSense's attempt to connect to the Netgear servers.

          Since there was no way I could progress past that point, I went to Youtube and found that video above and figured because it's a server and not a PC, the process must be very different.

          The more I'm looking, the more I'm wondering if I got the wrong system for what I'm attempting to do.

          Looking forward to this learning opportunity!

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Hmm, nope that should work fine.

            If it fails like that it will drop to the command line with the network still configured.

            Try to ping the servers:
            ping ews.netgate.com
            Or connect dircetly:
            curl https://ews.netgate.com

            If those don't show the issue try using the legacy installers:
            https://atxfiles.netgate.com/mirror/downloads/

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