I just took delivery on a shiny new Soekris 6501. I'm trying to install pfsense on it. I've installed from CD on several servers, but this is my first time with a diskless machine.
I have a serial port converter on a macbook pro, and can bring up the soekris to a monitor prompt. I have a 16 GB USB drive mounted inside the case. I'd like to install pfsense on this drive. I copied pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img to the drive with dd if=pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img of=/dev/disk4 bs=16k as it suggested in http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense. The system starts up OK, I hit return to boot, and it APPEARS to go through a boot process. The screen display is confused, with the 'spinning' cursor wandering all over my terminal emulator. Worse, letters go across the screen but are immediately blanked out. What term emulator do I need to be? I've tried xterm and xterm-color. At the end of the process I get one distinctly non-ascii character that looks a little like the Euro dollar sign (a gazerbie) and then I'm stuck. I tried the nano image as well; it didn't want to boot. Suggestions? M pointers to FR are fine. Thanks, --- David _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
