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    Boot usb pen, without BIOS support

    General pfSense Questions
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      elalomn last edited by

      Hi I'm pretty new to BSD and pfsense.
      I want to use and old computer as my router/firewall with 3 network cards.
      First i ran pfsense as a live cd and I liked it very much so i decided to install it, but since I don't have Hard Drive nor Floopy Disk in that machine I decided to use an USB pen drive (1GB) as the storage device.
      I succesfully installed pfsense in the pen drive from the CD.
      The problem is that the computer's BIOS is pretty old and has not USB boot support  :(

      So my cuestion is: can I use the pfsense CD, to boot the one in the USB??

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        GruensFroeschli last edited by

        Yes.
        Just boot off the CD and the USB-stick will be used to read/write the config.

        Take a look at the m0n0wall documentation since this applies to pfSense too.

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          hoba last edited by

          Format the stick and only use it to store the config booting from the livecd. This is option 98, not 99.

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