Install Issues

[jmcgon]

I have lost my configuration 3 times.  I understand that that has occurred because I am booted into LiveCD mode.  But I can not find how I convert my running configuration to disk so it becomes the configuration after reboot.

Please help me understand what I am doing wrong.  Thank you.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You need to login to the live CD up and running with the username "installer" and the password "opnsense", then install onto some hard drive or SSD. You cannot use the live CD in production and save configs etc.

[jmcgon]

Yes, I finally understood what I was  reading.  For anyone else....I had installed opnsense using usb.  This put's the system in livecd mode.  I made the config changes I wanted, then I opened an ssh session (I used Putty) using Installer as user and opnsense as pswd.  Then I had the choice of installing the config, which I did. 

I come from a cisco ios background and the concept here is the livecd is similar to the running config that needs to be written with the appropriate ios command (something like copy running-config startup-config), but its probably better since it is open source. 

Thanks for the reply

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The live CD is like booting a blank decice via TFTP. Installation is like copying the IOS image to flash. Then you have a production ready system.

[wbravin]

Hello all

I'm new to opnsense and i'm not an it guy

My Current setup
Router: asus rt ac87u with ip 192.168.1.1
I was gifted an HP ml 350 g6 with vmware 6.7 installed.... great (btw i know nothing about vmware and i'm learning as i go)

I set up opnsense according to youtube video.

opnsense will boot up and give me an ip 192.168.1.1 great

I login as root and opnsense selec 2 to change the ip to 192.168.1.5
I go to the GUI at that address and configure OPNsense great.
( i do not want opnsense to be my router or anything else until i know what i'm doing. Once this is achieved i will make opnsense my main router and my asus  as an access point)

my issue
When i login to opnsensean i configure it and then go to the dashboard. I see a message thast i'm running on a installation media and i should reboot. Fine

in the vm it does reboot

when it finishes it presents to me ther original ip address 192.168.1.1  why?
I canged the lan ip in the configuration and in the shell wehat am i missing
thank you in advance for your help