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4. Put USB stick in your Netgate SG-4860 and boot - et voila....

With regards to this step, are you inserting this stick after you have already installed OPNsense on the Negate? I don't understand what inserting this stick with the modified file is actually doing, is it just updating the file already on the Netgate or are you installing OPNsense fresh/again?

So far I have tried the following tools in an attempt to view the contents of the OPNsense USB stick, but my attempts have been unsuccessful:-

Ext2IFS
ufs2tools
ffsdrv
ufs explorer

I have another OPNsense box, which I've connected the USB upto, but I have not been able to mount the USB as the instructions below are regretfully beyond my Windows-only skills.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/usb-disks.html

I have hit a hurdle already: I don't have any devices running FreeBSD, is there a workaround to mount the USB stick on a Windows PC?

Thank you both.

franco: I'd already discovered and tried that setting, but still no joy. I will try the instructions in the linked post above.

Hi pylox,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Was your issue with a USB console port or a serial one? I'm apprehensive about following the instructions in the linked content, given it seems to relate to a traditional serial console port.

I've managed to get OPNsense onto this box, but.............. the USB console port no longer works. I can see the device boot-up, but no longer receive a login prompt. This is what I have:

*** OPNsense: OPNsense 18.7.4 (amd64/OpenSSL) ***

LAN (igb0)      -> v4: 192.168.x.x/24
WAN (igb1)      -> v4: 192.168.x.x/24

HTTPS: SHA256  {edited}
SSH:   SHA256  {edited}
SSH:   SHA256  {edited}
SSH:   SHA256  {edited}

Does anyone know how I can resurrect it please?

I am completely new to this world, so please bare with me / be kind :) I would like to install OPNsense on a Netgate SG-5100; can someone provide me the steps to achieve this please?