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I did not check to see how compatible the hybrid .iso files are with UEFI.  So that might be a showstopper.

Sorry for that previous incoherent mess of post.  Too many beers and being up late doesn't make for good writing.

I'd like to see OPNsense be able to come up with a more "fool proof" installer.  I'm a user of FreePBX (Linux IP Phone Server) and with their latest Release Candidate they have released a hybrid iso that allows for writing to CD/DVD or USB from the same .iso file.  If the OPNsense team has the resources to find out how FreePBX was a to able to do create this hybrid iso maybe OPNsense can also create this same type of hybrid .iso file.

Does OPNsense have any friends in the FreePBX team to talk to on how they did this?

It's not your Windows 7 computer.  I also got blue screens when writing the img file using rufus in dd mode or physdiskwrite.  It happened on two of my computers. I do not think it happened on my Windows 10 computer. I don't remember at this point.

Your best bet is to download TrueOS (Desktop BSD OS) and run that in live mode on your machine  Download opnsense in TrueOS and then follow instructions on how to write the image in FreeBSD.  Might not be easy if your not familliar with linux/bsd command line.   Took me a while.  I found renaming the opnsense filename to something short and moving it into the root of user's home folder to simplify the processs as you don't have to type in a long path/filename.

I finally got the usb image onto a flash drive correctly using TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) .  I'll try writing the image to a usb flash drive via Linux and Windows when the new image comes to see if those work for me.

Once I got the usb stick to boot i was expecting to see a menu asking to press (I) or (C) as stated in the wiki.  I guess the Wiki is outdated. 

During OPNsense's bootup process... the part right before it gets to were you have to normally logon... There will be a brief message saying something like

"Press Any Key now to invoke the early installer"

I missed that message all the previous times I was booting up to try to install OPNsense.  When I did press a key at that point it started the guided installer like I was expecting. And I'm good to go now.

I never get the option to chose (I) or (C).  It boots straight into live cd mode.... that happens with either the usb stick or CD-r i burned.

I downloaded the official images from the opnsense.org website so not sure why that's happening.  The CD version is really strange as I would have worked no issue.  I could see the usb image having trouble as it could be seen as a hard drive.

So I finally got the usb install image to work (way too hard guys... had to boot TrueOS and use that to DD the image, linux or windows would not work)

Now when i boot up I don't get an option to install or live boot.  It seems like it just automatically chooses the live boot option.  I burned the correct image to CD-R and had the same issue.

How do i manually invoke the installer after the live boot part finishes?