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pfSense hyper-v install crashes when attempting to format disk

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    DrSimplex @stephenw10
    last edited by DrSimplex Mar 3, 2025, 3:27 PM Mar 3, 2025, 3:26 PM

    @stephenw10 Nice! Yes, this is my attempt with 2.7.2. I've been looking for something legacy to try and troubleshoot with, I'll give that a go. Thanks!

    And no, it never offers for me to select a drive. Some forums I've seen say it is trying to install on my installation media, but I don't really get a chance to choose one or the other. :/

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      DrSimplex @DrSimplex
      last edited by Mar 3, 2025, 3:44 PM

      @DrSimplex Perfect that legacy installer you linked to worked just fine Seeing through the rest of setup but its weird that the current version from netgate was just not working 😲

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by Mar 3, 2025, 4:31 PM

        Yup that is odd. I'll try to get a test to replicate it though AFAIK it's already tested....

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          DrSimplex @stephenw10
          last edited by Mar 3, 2025, 5:41 PM

          @stephenw10 Sounds good, I'd imagine it would have been tested as well. I believe it could also have something to do with windows updates, I read another bug report that a KB update was causing issues with the install process for Hyper-V specifically... this was I think 2019 tho? Old news :/

          So far so good with the install, will check tonight to see where we're at :)

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            DrSimplex @stephenw10
            last edited by DrSimplex Mar 4, 2025, 5:28 AM Mar 4, 2025, 5:27 AM

            @stephenw10 said in pfSense hyper-v install crashes when attempting to format disk:

            If you're installing 2.7.2 then try the legacy ISO installer.

            So, honestly after a bit of troubleshooting I am getting logged into the web console for pfsense! The legacy ISO installer really just walked through formatting the drive, then the rest of setup for the network card I have was pretty straightforward over a terminal. Forgot I had my LAN port still set to a virtual one in the Hyper-V Switch Manager so that took me a second to remember 😅

            Again, not exactly sure why it wouldn't let me choose a disk to format with the original. I didn't change any of my Hyper-V settings, just swapped out the ISO. This is running 2.7.2, I know you mentioned that is the legacy ISO, am I good to just run with where I'm at?

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by Mar 4, 2025, 1:15 PM

              Yes, the resulting install is identical. You should be good to go.

              We re-tested the Net Installer here and were able to install in Hyper-V OK so I'm not sure what happened there. Must be something slightly different with your setup.

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                DrSimplex @stephenw10
                last edited by Mar 4, 2025, 1:55 PM

                @stephenw10 there must be something different I guess, but again I didn't change anything between the regular GUI installer and the legacy installer. Hopefully this was just a me issue this time. Really appreciate your help!

                Where does one access the legacy iso for future reference?

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by Mar 4, 2025, 2:15 PM

                  At the mirror I linked above. That's the only location it's hosed at netgate currently.

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                    SteveITS Galactic Empire @DrSimplex
                    last edited by Mar 4, 2025, 6:19 PM

                    @DrSimplex said in pfSense hyper-v install crashes when attempting to format disk:

                    Set disk to 10GB, but when I look into it the number is 25GB

                    As I understand it ZFS on a dynamically expanding disk will eventually use all of the disk size due to how it works. Options would be a small/fixed disk, or UFS.

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                      DrSimplex @SteveITS
                      last edited by Mar 4, 2025, 6:54 PM

                      @SteveITS I agree, I thought that may have been an issue so I restarted the VM setup ensuring the disk was fixed at, I think I set 15GB? Still ran into the same original issue where it wouldn't format initially. 🤷

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