in addition, when setting up a second one as a spare, I found it necessary to override the default disk partition, making / 7G and /usr the balance of the disk
On 3 August 2011 14:34, Nick Upson <n...@telensa.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have finally got 1.2.3 installed onto this box, things that seems to help > fix it (I cannot go back and exhaustively test, this needs to go into > production asap) > > - disable packet mode during the install > > - format the new hard disk on a windows machine first > > - that got me to a mountroot> prompt which I hadn't seen before, I then > used information from > http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=22824.0;wap2 > which allowed me to enter "ufs:ad1s1a" (Note slight change) and > "Once it is running edit (either through the UI or through the shell) > /boot/loader.conf and add the line: > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:ad1s1a"" > > > > -- > Nick Upson (01799 533252) > > -- Nick Upson (01799 533252)
