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I have installed the os-upnp plugin. In the install log, it says:

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For this daemon to work, you must modify your pf rules to add an anchor
in both the NAT and rules section.  Both must be called 'miniupnpd'.
Example:

# NAT section
# UPnPd rdr anchor
rdr-anchor "miniupnpd"

# Rules section
# uPnPd rule anchor
anchor "miniupnpd"

I don't understand what that means, and I don't know what to do with this information. UPnP doesn't work with this plugin installed, and I don't see it in the Services list on the Dashboard.

What am I missing?

The documentation is missing some steps, namely what role to choose for the backups to work?

Link to the docs: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/cloud_backup.html

What are you using to write the USB?

I've never seen the dreaded error 19.... ever.

I used Etcher on Linux with the 18.1-serial image.

The error 19 is about GPT/MBR. I don't quite understand what the problem is, but the drive I was installing to had a dos partition table and I chose GPT/UEFI in the installer (since it's the recommended option). Then I deleted all the partitions on the SSD, switched to GPT partition scheme, and selected GPT/UEFI again in the installer. That's what I'm running now. I'm afraid to reboot the router :D

Thank you, I ended up using another USB stick that seemed to work better with my APU2 and so it expanded during the serial image install.

OK, well you can install from a USB stick as I and thousands of others have done so. As I use APU2's for testing I must have done it on countless occasions, at least three times last weekend. :)

Here's my usage.

Where did you find your dark theme?

I was able to boot and install with a Kingston 16GB usb2 stick in the usb3 ports. But now I'm getting the dreaded error 19. So close!

--edit: I rebooted again and it failed with this:

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usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.3 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
sdhci_pci0: <Generic SD HCI> mem 0xf7f27000-0xf7f270ff at device 20.7 on pci0
sdhci_pci0: 1 slot(s) allocated
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xef000-0xeffff on isa0
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
uart0: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x3f8 irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa0
hwpstate0: <Cool`n'Quiet 2.0> on cpu0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
nvme cam probe device init
ugen0.1: <0x1022 XHCI root HUB> at usbus0
ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <SATA SSD SBFM01.1> ACS-4 ATA SATA 3.x device
ada0: Serial Number 8EFA077A1AE701738346
ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: Command Queueing enabled
ada0: 15272MB (31277232 512 byte sectors)
uhub0: <0x1022 XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen1.1: <AMD EHCI root HUB> at usbus1
[ thread pid 15 tid 100073 ]
Stopped at      vga_bitblt_one_text_pixels_block+0x135: movl    (%rax,%r13,4),%ebx
db>


Then I typed `reboot` and now it started up just fine...

The image I posted earlier shows how much space opnsense takes up on the SSD after an install, before adding any other features. What you decide to add after install is up to you.

Thanks, I didn't notice the attached image. My disk usage with the nano image is different and it uses only 3GB out of the 16GB, cf. attachment.

It's a bit flaky...

I have a number of USB sticks, ranging from a couple of Gb to 128Gb, USB2 and USB3. Some will work and some will not... and some will work some of the time. I've also killed a few completely in the process.

Best answer is to try several, one of them WILL work. :)

Don't expect opnsense to fill the SSD, it's not that large.

I have tried a 1GB but it's too small and I can't write the whole serial image to it. I would expect OPNsense to expand to the whole disk size because I want to run a transparent proxy for apt packages and http data. It's also complaining that it can't update because there isn't enough free space left on the device so I can't upgrade to 18.1.1

I was thinking this is because of the nano image that goes out of its way to minimize writes etc, and that installing the standard serial image would help with that.

Which BIOS version do you use on your APU2s? There are so many that it's confusing.

Or maybe I'm doing something wrong. I download the 18.1-serial image, I use Etcher to write the image to a 16GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB3 flash memory, then I plug in one of the USB3 ports on the APU2, plug the power in, press F10. If the USB is in the list, I select to boot from it; if not, I choose the setup option, don't change anything, move the USB stick to the other USB port, press x, F10 again, etc until I see it in the list.

Then I use the default options to boot, and it will eventually fail with the message above.

Anything you can spot that I'm doing wrong?

I have copied the nano image on my SSD since I can't boot from USB3 with the normal installer.

It works well, but my SSD is 16GB and only 3.4GB are in use. I can't run any update because it says it's ran out of space while decompressing the packages.

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root@router:~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Nano    3.0G    949M    1.8G    34%    /
devfs                     1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
tmpfs                     3.5G     13M    3.5G     0%    /var
tmpfs                     3.5G    540K    3.5G     0%    /tmp
devfs                     1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev


How do I make use of the other 13GB?

I used dd to write the nano image to the mSATA drive, there is no USB plugged in. But it only uses 3GB of the 16GB. The nano image doesn't have the installer user, only root. And the serial image doesn't boot because of problems with BSD and USB3 apparently.

That worked, thanks.

My SSD is 16GB, but OPNsense only takes 3GB. I thought it would auto-expand on the first run?

Also, should I run opnsense-installer afterwards?

I find it very slow to boot, it takes maybe two minutes to go from power on to the jingle.

[TLDR: The solution is just to try another USB memory stick. I used a 16GB Kingston USB2 on the APU's USB3 port and it worked without a hitch whereas I couldn't get the SanDisk UltraFit 16GB USB3 stick to work.]

TLDR: The solution is just to try another USB memory stick. I used a 16GB Kingston USB2 on the APU's USB3 port and it worked without a hitch whereas I couldn't get the SanDisk UltraFit 16GB USB3 stick to work.

I can't boot the OPNsense serial image on an APU2 using a USB3 flash drive.

I tried the serial images for 18.1 and 17.7.5 (couldn't find any other version anywhere)

The error is:

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da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00> Removable Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da0: Serial Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
da0: 400.000MB/s transfers
da0: 14663MB (30031250 512 byte sectors)
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 998163109 Hz quality 1000
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install [ro,noatime]...
Mounting filesystems...
tunefs: soft updates set
GEOM_MIRROR: Force device OPNsenseMirror start due to timeout.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/OPNsenseMirror launched (1/2).
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
tunefs: /: failed to write superblock


I don't have a USB2 bracket to connect like this blog post suggests https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/building-a-bsd-home-router-pt-5-installing-opnsense/

How do I install OPNsense?