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Yes it can. :) .

Yes it can. Easy. Been there, done that.  8)

Although I am not sure why it is important to transform a FreeBSD system unless it is a remote/cloud service that doesn't do custom ISO install (vultr is great for that btw)..

To add Opnsense to a running system so I do not need an external router for now.

I'm not sure if you are using UFS or not

No I used ZFS. Just tested on UFS, that works. I need ZFS support. UFS will not save me an external router.

Only thing after the transformation from FreeBSD to Opnsense is that SSH can not be started from console. The option is not there. Is that normal? Can not find the option to start SSH in the webgui as well.

I have tried again and the answer is: no it can not be done.

First I installed plain FreeBSD 10.1.

Than I did what Franco explained.

First error:

The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.opnsense.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest, please wait...
pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.opnsense.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found
A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pkg'.

So in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf I changed the line

url: "pkg+http://pkg.opnsense.org/${ABI}/latest"

in to

url: "pkg+http://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:10:i386/latest"

Second error:

pkg: No packages available to install matching 'os-update' have been found in the repositories

After "pkg install pfsense" I rebooted.

Third error: the machine does not want to boot:

mount: / unknown special file ore file system
mkdir : /tmp/.cdrom: Read-only file system
mount_unionfs: /tmp/.cdrom: No such file or directory

Well, what exactly brought you to the conclusion this doesn't work? We went through the process with a user once, he made a blog post about it:

Thanks Franco. I am gonna try again.

The answer is "no". Just tried it. Sorry for asking.

Hi,

I read that Opnsense is a standard pkg package. Is it save to use Opnsense in production as a standard pkg package on top of a standard FreeBSD installation?

Thanks,
J.