Installing & Setting Up pfSense - Paiet/Tech-Journal-for-Everything GitHub Wiki

Install pfSense
Getting started with pfSense? What do I need?
- Console cable
- Where to Get pfSense? https://pfsense.org/download
- 32bit or 64 bit
- Options for installation media
  - Remember to verify the checksum
  - USB Memstick Installer (preferred method)
    - image that includes installer.
    - Entire HD will be used.
  - Embedded (NanoBSD)
    - image written to flash memory rather than conventional HDD.
    - 3 slices or parts: OS slice to boot, another slice for upgrades and configuration slice.
    - Installs using serial console or vga console
  - CD Image (ISO) Installer
    - burn to CD for drive; mount the file
Are there any other considerations that I need to know?
- Hardware Requirements
  - For full feature sets to be available
    - https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/#requirements
  - For basic features
    - https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/hardware.html
Are we ready now to install pfSense?
- Demo Preparation to USB memstick installer from Mac OSX
  - Open Terminal: diskutil list to locate memstick on Mac (e.g. /dev/disk3)
  - Unmount the Memstick: diskutil umount <device name>
  - navigate to downloaded image directory
  - unzip and apply image to memstick: gzcat pfSense-memstick-2.4.4-RELEASE-p1-amd64.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m
- (Show Preparation) Demo Installation using ISO media
  - create VM with 2 network interfaces (Simple Install)
  - create VM with Multiple interfaces
  - Install with latest edition as of recording
  - (Install with previous version for updating)