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McCordRM
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Can't make working USB
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October 03, 2024, 10:28:59 pm »
I've tried RUFUS and IMGBurn. I've tried installing to different USB drives. Currently running Windows 10 Pro.
I unzip the file ( OPNsense-24.7-vga-amd64.img.bz2 ) and burn to the USB drive. The system won't recognize it as a drive, but going into Disk Management displays it like the image I've included.
Any suggestions what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.
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Re: Can't make working USB
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October 03, 2024, 11:04:12 pm »
Format the drive first, exfat or ntfs will do
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Patrick M. Hausen
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Re: Can't make working USB
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October 03, 2024, 11:13:47 pm »
What do you mean by "recognize as a drive". Your screen shot looks like the imaging went alright. You cannot read that drive in Windows. You are supposed to boot your PC from it.
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Re: Can't make working USB
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Quote from: newsense on October 03, 2024, 11:04:12 pm
Format the drive first, exfat or ntfs will do
Sorry, why?
It is unnecessary to format the drive as exfat or ntfs to install OPN on it. The installer will format it to freeBSD requirements.
Then once the OPN OS is "burned" to the drive, as Patrick says, Windows can't read the contents because by default Windows does not "understand" a freeBSD filesystem.
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Not because it was necessary, just to confirm there are no errors with the drive.
If the drive is fine and USB3 then using a USB2 drive may be required on that machine.
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