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PFSense, why .iso.gz?

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hey guys!

 

so i am going to make a pfsense router,

 

i want to try the os in a vm before to try out all the options, but the iso download is an iso.gz file ,witch virtualbox cant use, is there a standard ISO download out there?

 

 

Thanks!

They compress the image so you can download it faster, you have to uncompress the .gz file to get the ISO.

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hey guys!

 

so i am going to make a pfsense router,

 

i want to try the os in a vm before to try out all the options, but the iso download is an iso.gz file ,witch virtualbox cant use, is there a standard ISO download out there?

 

 

Thanks!

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hey guys!

 

so i am going to make a pfsense router,

 

i want to try the os in a vm before to try out all the options, but the iso download is an iso.gz file ,witch virtualbox cant use, is there a standard ISO download out there?

 

 

Thanks!

They compress the image so you can download it faster, you have to uncompress the .gz file to get the ISO.

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They compress the image so you can download it faster, you have to uncompress the .gz file to get the ISO.

Oh! Thanks man! :D

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Gzip, it's a compression format used largely in Linux but Windows can extract it too.

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