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    Installation from USB Thumb Drive?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      cheuschober
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      Hi,

      I have a box without any type of cd-rom in it that I'd like to use for pfsense. The box can boot from a USB drive but I don't see any type of Live-USB release.

      Is there a simple means to prep a usb drive for and use one as a Live-CD (which can later be used for hard-drive installation) ?

      Many thanks,
      ~C

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        hoba
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        use physdiskwrite to write the embedded image to the thumbdrive. With the correct usb boot emulation you can run the complete system including holding config.xml from the thumbdrive.

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          cheuschober
          last edited by

          Thanks, Hoba.

          Am I correct in assuming, then, that an equivalent operation would be:

          zcat pfsense-1.2-RC4-LiveCD-installer.iso.gz | dd of=/dev/sda bs=16k
          

          I had wondered if that's all it took or if I was going to have to do some other form of boot patching.

          Regards,
          ~C

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            hoba
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            yes, the process is basically the same like when writing the image to a cf-card.

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