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    Just wasted two hours of my life on reinstalling :-(

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      Mr. Jingles
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      Suggestion: update the wiki.

      • I have an Intel machine as my main pfSense. I bought a Dell R200 for 50 EUR as a backup machine (WIFE explodes when internet is gone).

      • ‘Been posting a thread yesterday and today about the buggy OpenVPN constantly disconnecting.

      • Tried the Dell today. Same settings: everything works.

      • So it’s the upgrade process in pfSense that is buggy; somewhere from 2.0.x all the way down to 2.1.5 stuff gets mixed up (I know, everytime I did an upgrade stuff broke).

      • So, wanted to do a fresh reinstall of the first box (I can’t import a backup, because then I will import the crap which is in there –- somewhere).

      • Downloaded the LiveCD (yes, verified the SHA of course ;D ). Burned it to an USB. CRAP: the stupid thing sees the installed pfSense, and keeps on booting that.

      • Tried 16412 different ‘emergency boot disks’ to format the drive. None of them worked.

      • Finally got some sense and downloaded the pfSense-memstick-2.1.5-RELEASE-amd64-20140825-0744.img.

      • Installed right now.

      • The wiki doesn’t mention this.

      • Why is it that the ‘LiveCD/installer’ doesn’t install when there is an existing installation on the HDD, yet the ‘memstick’ does install? What’s the difference?

      Can I suggest:

      • Update the wiki to make this more clear?

      • CD's are '90's material, it is 2014 now  :P

      ( ;D )

      6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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        Mr. Jingles
        last edited by

        Sorry, copy/paste apparently doesn't work too well.

        6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Which page are you referring to?

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            Mr. Jingles
            last edited by

            @stephenw10:

            Which page are you referring to?

            This one, Sir Steve:

            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense

            :)

            6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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            • ?
              Guest
              last edited by

              Fact is: A CD is still enough to install pfSense, I used a RW CD just some days ago for this purpose.. :-p

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Sometimes older methods are the most reliable.  ;)
                I agree though, that page could use some editing. The information is all there it just doesn't seem logically laid out. There have been a huge number of improvements and additions to the wiki in the run up to 2.2. This might well see some editing.

                Steve

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