Newbie Here - Which File To Download?

[georgeberz]

Id like to get the Rc3 version

Im running an emachine celeron so its 32bit

is this the correct file

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

I notices there are many choices ie RC3-4g or 3g or 2g etc, what is the difference? dis I select the appropiate image above

[jimp]

As that is an FAQ, it's found in the FAQ on the doc wiki…

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_are_the_512M,_1G,_2G,_and_4G_NanoBSD_files%3F

[ilium007]

To be fair I have come here with exactly the same question and I don't believe the FAQ does a good enough job of explaining the files. For a non-CF installation what file should we be downloading ?

[dreamslacker]

@ilium007:

To be fair I have come here with exactly the same question and I don't believe the FAQ does a good enough job of explaining the files. For a non-CF installation what file should we be downloading ?

Embedded with serial console - Xg implies the image size: 1g is a 1GB image, 2g is 2GB image; amd64 implies 64-bit, i386 implies x86 a.k.a. 32bit image; nanobsd is the embedded serial console variant.

pfSense-2.0-RELEASE-Xg-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz

Embedded with VGA output - Xg implies the image size: 1g is a 1GB image, 2g is 2GB image; amd64 implies 64-bit, i386 implies x86 a.k.a. 32bit image; nanobsd_vga is the embedded with VGA output variant.

pfSense-2.0-RELEASE-Xg-i386-nanobsd_vga.img.gz

LiveCD or Installer CD image to be burned to optical media - i386 implies x86 (32bit), amd64 implies 64bit variant; iso instead of img tells you this is a liveCD/ installer rather than embedded variant
pfSense-2.0-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

Live or Installer iso to be flashed to thumbdrives or other USB bootable media - memstick tells you this is for thumbdrives a.k.a. memory sticks;  i386 implies x86 (32bit), amd64 implies 64bit variant; iso instead of img tells you this is a liveCD/ installer rather than embedded variant
pfSense-memstick-2.0-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz