Hello,
I've searched google and the forum but couldn't find a working answer,
so I thought I'd ask here.
Is it possible to install the full version of pfsense from USB stick in
stead of from a cdrom ?
I'm asking because I'm installing a fair share of pfsense boxes
regularly, and I never have an empty CDR at hand. I normally do have
plenty of USB sticks with me.
I usually install debian or ubuntu from usb stick by converting the
install ISO to a usb stick by using the ubuntu startup disk creator tool.
However, that doesn't seem to work with the pfsense ISO. (not a real
suprise but it didn't hurt trying)
Next, I tried UNetbootin, which gave me partial success. (It seems like
a very nice usb boot disk creator tool for all kinds of purposes)
Simply converting the pfSense iso to usb stick didn't seem to boot, but
creating a default FreeBSD 7.2 boot stick works and boots up to the
freebsd installer.
Thinking I was almost there I copied the contents of the pfsense install
ISO into the root of the working FreeBSD 7.2 usb boot stick (overwriting
all existing files) hoping this would make the usb stick boot to the
pfsense installer. However, no joy... it still boots the original
FreeBSD 7.2 installer.
My first guess is there is a config file somewhere that tells the boot
process which installer to start after setting up a minimalistic
environment.
Being more of a linux guy myself, I don't have enough FreeBSD knowledge
to know what I need to change to make it run the pfsense installer.
Could anybody tell me what would be the next step ?
I'm sure this would be a very useful entry in the pfsense online
documentation as well, since I found quite a lot of people online asking
the same question but never found a working procedure.
Thanks!
Regards,
Hans
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