Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chris Buechler schrieb: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The older FreeBSD installations had a floppy boot disc, whether this could be adapted I have wondered? Not in this fashion, no. The only thing worse than booting from CDROM is booting

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-07 Thread Paul M
people have already suggested booting the live CD with the config on USB, so that problem's solved. try www.bootdisk.com for useful stuff, and I recommend Ultimate Boot CD as a valuable resource. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

[pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez
Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense installed (it works I tested it on my

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Gary Buckmaster
Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez wrote: Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.05.2008 um 00:21 schrieb Gary Buckmaster: Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez wrote: Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just

RE: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Richardson
Booting from CD isn't an option? Why are you trying to boot from USB? _ From: Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:16 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Anil Garg
If BIOS does not support booting from USB then no operating system can help because the BIOS is the first intelligence to the processor which directs the computer to devices. Looks like you should boot from pfsense liveCD and then configure the rules to be saved on the USB drive. Ideally save

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Tortise
Re: If BIOS does not support booting from USB then no operating system can help because the BIOS is the first intelligence to the processor which directs the computer to devices. A Compact flash with IDE interface works very well. It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and hand over to the USB device on these old machines? Any reason not? (Floppy disk required!) I was thinking of that - I seem to recall some kind of boot loader that

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Tortise
] boot usb wothout bios support On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and hand over to the USB device on these old machines? Any reason not? (Floppy disk required!) I was thinking of that - I seem to recall

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The older FreeBSD installations had a floppy boot disc, whether this could be adapted I have wondered? Not in this fashion, no. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: