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    Stumped at install

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      I would like to think I am pretty IT literate seeing as I do it for a living!
      But I've tried burning the ISO to CD, and the IMG to USB and both do the same on 3 different PCs, a black screen with the flashing cursor.
      What am I doing wrong?
      I used imgburn for the CD, and win32, and rufus for the USB.

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        kejianshi
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        The newest long term releases of linux mint can both burn images to thumbdrives, sd cards, disks or whatever else right out of the box…

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Both the ISO and the usb images are gziped. Did you extract them first? I would have expected imgburn to look for iso files rather then .iso.gz. I know win32diskimager cannot extract the file on the fly unlike physdiskwrite.

          Steve

          Edit: Phrased that badly.

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            irfarino
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            As per Stephen, you need to unzip the gz file , use 7zip to unzip the archive and then write the unzipped image to usb or cd see here https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Writing_Disk_Images. I had to do a lot of hula hooping before I managed to install pfsense on my alix box  ;D. The documentation on the pfsense site is awesome take some time and go through it, it is really helpful.

            Cheers!

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