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    Installing 2.0 RC3 to a Compact Flash card for the m1n1wall from Netgate

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      allsop
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      Recently discovered pfSense and bought a nice packaged Netgate system with 1.2 preinstalled. (Netgate m1n1wall 2D3 / 2D13)

      I bought a 4GB compact flash card to put 2.0 RC3 on it (would like some of the new features). I have…

      • Downloaded pfSense-2.0-RC3-4g-i386-20110621-1821-nanobsd.img.gz

      • Used the terminal command: gunzip -c pfSense.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk7s1 – (this is on a Mac)

      • Waited about an hour for the image to be put on the card

      • Put the new card in the m1n1wall and turned it on

      I guess I did something wrong in that it doesn't appear to be working.  I have my laptop hooked up to the LAN port, but I'm just getting IP addresses like 169.254.19.183.  I put the 2GB card back in and all is well again with 1.2.

      I don't have a cable to connect to the COM port; so I guess I'm wondering if anyone has had previous experience with this that might know what's happening?  Or am I just too stupid to be doing this?  I've spent hours looking over the wiki, how-to's and Googling.

      Thanks much for any help you can offer.

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        wallabybob
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        @allsop:

        Used the terminal command: gunzip -c pfSense.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk7s1 – (this is on a Mac)

        I don't know MACs but I suspect your of argument to the dd command should have been /dev/disk7

        In FreeBSD (if I recall correctly MAC OS is at least somewhat based on FreeBSD) a disk device name ending in s1 (e.g. /dev/ad0s1) means slice 1 of the disk while a name something like /dev/ad0 means the whole disk.

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          allsop
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          Thanks!  I'll try that out.

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            allsop
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            Thank you wallabybob!!  That was it… booted and now running through the setup wizard.  ;D

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              rurbina
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              http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense#Embedded_.28Compact_Flash.29_Installation

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