<![CDATA[Install pfSense remotely in datacenter]]>Anyone have success developing methods for installing pfSense remotely, specifically into a datacenter where there is no physical access to the server? I am wanting to spin up a Rackspace Cloud instance with pfSense, and route all VPN traffic through this instance to my other cloud servers.

I do have access to rescue mode with Rackspace Cloud, and was wondering if I could somehow burn a pfSense image to the hard drive while in rescue mode, and then boot back into pfSense. Problem is, I don't have anyway of responding to prompts before the box boots, so I'd need to complete items like configuring interfaces in a different fashion.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Haven't seen any solutions when Googling and searching this forum, but just thought I would ask anyway.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/47961/install-pfsense-remotely-in-datacenterRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 20:03:16 GMTThu, 23 Aug 2012 14:26:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Install pfSense remotely in datacenter on Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:30:37 GMT]]>Almost impossible to do this. Certainly that would be impractical.
There is too greater difference between pfSense and FreeBSD to simply lay in on top.

Steve

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/379051https://forum.netgate.com/post/379051Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:30:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Install pfSense remotely in datacenter on Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:48:58 GMT]]>So your wanting to reinstall your cloud hosted virtual machine with an instance of pfsense? I believe they you can FreeBSD on the RS cloud, you could install freebsd9 and maybe lay pfsense on top of that perhaps.

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