Install without USB or CF?

[baradhili]

Hi All,
I'm looking to install Opnsense on a Watchguard X700 .. It doesn't have USB and the CFs I have max out at 64MB
Is it possible to install direct to a HDD?

from what I read the Live install wants to write to the first HDD only.. Which would nuke my main PC.. is ther a way to tell it to install to another disk?

Thanks

[franco]

Hi there,

Nano image directly dd's to target disk and expands on first boot. No software install necessary.


Cheers,
Franco

[baradhili]

Will give that a try... though my new problem is not identifying the network ports...

booting from serial image:-
HardenedBSD: initialize and check features (__HardenedBSD_version 1100056 __FreeBSD_version 1102000).
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU                1200MHz (1202.76-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x6b4  Family=0x6  Model=0xb  Stepping=4
  Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 536870912 (512 MB)
avail memory = 494182400 (471 MB)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1202755843 Hz quality 800
random: entropy device external interface
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd1 at kbdmux0
000.000024 [4213] netmap_init               netmap: loaded module
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xc116f230, 0) error 19
Firmware Error (ACPI): A valid RSDP was not found (20171214/tbxfroot-369)
ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
pcib0 pcibus 0 on motherboard
pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 11 Entries> on motherboard
$PIR: Using invalid BIOS IRQ 9 from 2.13.INTA for link 0x63
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <unknown> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)
pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 12.0 (no driver attached)
pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
pci1: <network, ethernet> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0

[baradhili]

pciconf -lv

...
none1@pci0:2:9:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
...

now how to find drivers..

[baradhili]

So it looks like I can get a freebsd 11.2 realtec driver... but since I'm on linux, I can't mount the ufs partition .. :{
https://unlockforus.com/freenas-11-2-re0-watchdog-timeout-error/

I'm thinking I might shelve this for a bit and stay with my pfsense on a thin client until I can build up a motherboard based FW

[ole]

So it looks like I can get a freebsd 11.2 realtec driver... but since I'm on linux, I can't mount the ufs partition .. :{

Finally, I solved this issue by using kvm and pass-trough etc. Maybe you have to set the CPU to qemu-x64 if you (like me) get BSD kernel crash.