cannnot get internet access through pfsense after 3 years of no trouble
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Thanks Balena Etcher dosent seem to be working at all for me.
Should i use Rufus to clean off the flash drive first that i have . I think i used this flash drive before for 2.7.2 although now it dosent work with the lastest iso file
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You should use the memstick img if you're writing to a USB memstick not the ISO.
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Hi Stephen
Apologies yes I meant the mem stick version
Yes I tried that it gave some error once it was downloaded the memstick one. It had gz on the end of the filename, is this correct? I thought it should have IMG at the end but I cannot find a file that works for me.
It's there any programme that completely wipes a memory stick so I can download this programme?
I remember all this being a lot easier first time I did it. Maybe I need a new memory stick.
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Etcher can extract the img from the gzip on the fly when it write it so that's not an issue.
What was the error?
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Okay managed to flash the drive
Pfsense loaded
Am I launching a shell for rescue or reinstalling do you think?
It's giving me three options
I don't have the previous config file ( think it's on an old hard drive) but I can quickly download and access one that I was using and edit it to my requirements
It says something about zfs for system, should I stay with ufs?
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In the first menu you should have an option to recover the config. Do not agree to wipe the drive until you have recovered it.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-walkthrough.html#configuration-restore
Unless you are installing to eMMC or a very small SSD you should use ZFS.
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I don't think it can see the config file should I just choose install pfsense?
Edit: Right hopefully I'm getting somewhere, I have wiped the vault and will now try to connect to it
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If the filesystem was sufficiently damaged it may not have been possible to recover the config.
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I've made a new password and it doesn't recognise it.
So I'm going to reinstall it again
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Thanks again Stephen
All solved now I have the config file, if it's not broke don't fix it is a good saying for me to follow.
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Thanks for the old download links, really helpful those solving this.
