Re: [pfSense] Two queries from intending new user

2015-11-18 Thread Travis Hansen
Bret It's very easy to install pfsense on a self-contained thumb drive.  I'd recommend that and just changing your bios boot order as appropriate. Once you've setup the configuration/etc on the thumb drive and you feel comfortable moving it to 'production' it's very easy to export you whole conf

Re: [pfSense] Two queries from intending new user

2015-11-18 Thread Usama Ahmad
Hello Bret, The answer to your first question is not really. You can do an advanced install but will have to make the partitions needed beforehand using a live system disk and then play around with grub after installing PfSense on freed partitions. Fairly complex especially since this is BSD and n

Re: [pfSense] Two queries from intending new user

2015-11-18 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 18 Nov 2015 06:14:16 NZDT +1300, Bret Busby wrote: The short answer is no and no. > Does installing pfSense, especially, using the "Quick/Easy Install > option", allow for installation so as to allow for multiple boot > options (being able to choose an alternative boot option)? pfsense is

Re: [pfSense] Two queries from intending new user

2015-11-18 Thread compdoc
>Does installing pfSense, especially, using the "Quick/Easy Install option", allow for installation so as to allow for multiple boot options No, it will erase the hard drive and set up a freebsd file system. Might be worth using another drive altogether to preserve the old drive, or use clonezilla

[pfSense] Two queries from intending new user

2015-11-17 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have been recommended to install and use pfSense to replace my existing firewall, which is Firestarter running on an old and unsupported version of Debian Linux. I have looked at the pfSense documentation, including the Installation Guide for pfSense, and I have the following two queries