Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

[shovenose]

So, I get an .img file... now WTF do I do with it?
I want to install it on a CD-less HP thin client PC ...

[Topcat]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

decompile/extract the files to a thumb drive or burn the disk and use an external optical.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

I've installed pfsense on plenty of shit. Get a usb cd/dvd drive

if the client has other sata ports, take it apart and take a sata drive and just install it with the drive setting outside the case

[shovenose]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

-wont boot from USB for some reason
not sata or normal ide...
Oh well I give up.
Thanks guys

[Scenic]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

Does the thin client have a CF card slot?

If so, get a CF card (16MB min. for m0n0wall), pop it into your cardreader on your main PC and write the .img onto it using this tool.
Use the "generic-pc-1.33.img" for m0n0wall

pfsense.. no idea.. They don't seem to provide a HDD/CF image, just a USB stick installer and a bootable CD ISO.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

it the cilent can't boot off a usb cd drive, I seriously doubt iw will boot from a flash drive

[Scenic]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

CF card slots in thin clients are almost always directly wired to the IDE port.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

yes I know. CF is built upon ATA data transfer protocols. Nearly every time I make a real PFsense system I use one of these

[shovenose]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

It's the other way around - the pins are on the motherboard, while the plastic connector with the holes is on the flash disk unit.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Part-FM05...item2a1cc05722
like that

[ratdude747]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

It's the other way around - the pins are on the motherboard, while the plastic connector with the holes is on the flash disk unit.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Part-FM05...item2a1cc05722
like that

That is a laptop IDE connection... odd usage though. I wonder if it standard pinout wise?

I wonder if one could get a gender changer and use it with an IDE to mini-IDE adapter and use a surrogate computer for the install?

OR

if I am wrong and that is a standard IDE connection, just use a gender changer and an IDE cable to have both the flash drive and a cd drive

[Scenic]

Re: Install m0n0wall or pfSense - how?

If it's like in the pic on ebay, I've got several thin clients with the same setup. One from Igel and one from Liscon. Internally identical (Via C3 600MHz or something).

That's a standard laptop 2.5" HDD connector (with +5V) on the board. You can get adapter cables if you need them, or instead of those flash disks, plug in CF adapters.
One of my thin clients came with a 64MB flash disk (like the one in the ebay link), the other had a CF adapter with a 32MB card instead.

looks kinda like this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/160567499188