Brian Neufeld wrote:
I tried this recently and it didn't work, so either I did something
wrong or it is broken...
To clarify:
1) I configured a working system from the beta3 CD, not installing to HD
2) Once everything was configured and functioning, accessed from browser
and saved "config-[pfsense hostname]-[date-time stamp].xml"
Without changing the filename, I copied the XML file to a FAT (i.e. DOS)
formatted floppy and then rebooted from the CD. It didn't find the XML
file and, consequently, didn't configure itself. I even tried renaming
the file on the floppy to "config.xml" and still no joy.
For reference, I tried this with m0n0wall 1.22 (generic PC) and it
worked as expected. m0n0, however seems behave in a fundamentally
different fashion and writes config.xml upon every save from the web
GUI. pfSense does not do this and doesn't appear to utilize the floppy
at all during GUI saves.
I tell you what I understood (but not testes fully).
If the system at boot detects a floppy or USB removable device (with FAT
file system), in the console menu you see the option to copy the
configuration to removable media. This option puts a file named
'config.xml' into a directory named 'conf' on the media.
I suppose that, if you want to load the config from removable media, it
should be named /conf/config.xml (starting from the root of the floppy).
As I told, I tested the first part of this procedure (saving the config
to floppy) but I cannot remember whether I tried to boot from it or not.
Angelo Turetta
Italy - Modena
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