


You will be asked after a short time to remove the CD and reboot the system to PfSense suggests a setting for your subpartitioning now which you usually should just keep.Īfter accepting the above settings pfSense is starting to transfer the system to the prepared media. In case you skipped the above settings this is the point where your data on the media will be overwritten. Select the just created partition as target for your installation.Ĭonfirm this step. If you encounter problems with the bootloader after the installation is done rerun the installation and check "Packet mode" at this screen. You typically can confirm the following step. In case your partitioning was the same like before as this is a reinstall confirm the changes. You usually should just keep this setting and move on to the next step. PfSense suggests using the complete space of your drive for the installation. The media is now prepared to continue with partitioning. Now you are at the point of no return: Only hit "Format xxX" if you are really sure there is no valuable data left at this media! Setting your drive from auto to lba or chs in bioas already might help to detect the right settings. In case you get errors try to alter your bios settings befor manually entering values here. You should leave this the way it was detected as long as you don't run into any troubles Beware this will whipe your entire media!Īt the next step pfSense will show you the detected drive geometry. You should format the disk to prepare it for the installation. Choose your media and hit enter to continue. Any other constelations are not officially supported. It's recommended to have a dedicated media only for your install. Please make sure you are not accidently overwriting data you still need. Next pfSense will present a list with detected suitable installmedias to you. Change what you need or just go one by accepting the settings. (Basically you can run through the installer by just accepting all suggestions the installer is offering)įirst you get some settings to localize your keyboard or change your console appearance. The configuration you did will be transferred to the hard drive by the installer. Installing pfSense to Hard DiskIf you are satisfied and want to setup pfSense to your hard drive run option 99 from the shell menu now.
