<![CDATA[Pfsense installation/burning]]>HI
i m very new to pfsense.
i have download this

pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-4g-nanobsd.img.gz

then unzip this, then i tried to burned it by nero -9.
While burning, it was saying , Block mismatch, Fix/ignore. I pressed ignore. it burned, but with that Dvd , the system does not boot.

what i am doing wrong ???

also : whats the differences between

pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-4g-nanobsd.img.gz  and pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-512mb-nanobsd.img.gz

why one is 3GB and other one is only 512 mb ?? whats the difference between those 2 ??

thanks for your help

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/20152/pfsense-installation-burningRSS for NodeSat, 14 Mar 2026 16:41:38 GMTTue, 22 Dec 2009 20:29:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Pfsense installation/burning on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:12:57 GMT]]>I learned it !Thank you!!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/218617https://forum.netgate.com/post/218617Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:12:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pfsense installation/burning on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:58 GMT]]>If you want to burn to a CD, you need to download the iso file.
The nanobsd files are not intended to be installed/run off a CD.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/217256https://forum.netgate.com/post/217256Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pfsense installation/burning on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:00:39 GMT]]>a file something.gz is, by convention, a gzip compressed file.

pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-4g-nanobsd.img.gz  is intended to be written to a 4GB memory card while pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-512mb-nanobsd.img.gz is intended to be written to a 512MB memory card. (In both cases, after decompression.)

The nanobsd file are disk images intended to be written directly to a raw disk. On Unix, where the memory card is (say) /dev/sdc, use the commands

gunzip pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-4g-nanobsd.img.gz

dd if=pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-4g-nanobsd.img of=/dev/sdc

to decompress the disk image, then write it to the memory card. Then put the memory card in the target system and boot.

I'm sure this is written up in one of the forums.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/217230https://forum.netgate.com/post/217230Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:00:39 GMT