I seriously cannot install opnsense on to USB

[druplex]

I have googled, searched on this forum but all answered provided have not yet solved my issue. Am trying to write the VGA image(v. 17.7.5) on to a USB drive so as to install on my desktop pc with the below specs;

Model: Dell optiplex 755
BIOS : A22
RAM: 2GB
HDD:160GB

I have tried using all softwares i.e rufus,win32 disk imager but with no luck. Rufus says the "image is either not bootable or is not supported by rufus" while win32 disk imager will write to disk but when i plug onto my desktop it says "no boot file found".Have tried also on 2 other laptops(lenovo think pad 3450 and dell latitude e6230) with the results being the same.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Regards,

Druplex.

[bartjsmit]

Do you have access to Linux or a Mac? I've never failed to create a working USB stick with dd

Bart...

[druplex]

Unfortunately  i don't. Will that help? maybe i can try and download ubuntu and see if it will work.

[miroco]

Give Etcher a try.

https://etcher.io

It writes images to both SD cards and USB drives.


Windows x86/x64

macOS x64

Linux x86/x64

[mossi2000]

I have googled, searched on this forum but all answered provided have not yet solved my issue. Am trying to write the VGA image(v. 17.7.5) on to a USB drive so as to install on my desktop pc with the below specs;

Model: Dell optiplex 755
BIOS : A22
RAM: 2GB
HDD:160GB

I have tried using all softwares i.e rufus,win32 disk imager but with no luck. Rufus says the "image is either not bootable or is not supported by rufus" while win32 disk imager will write to disk but when i plug onto my
Druplex.

Hi,

I found Rufus to be reliable in creating bootable USB sticks.
Can you provide some more information:
- General:Are you able to boot from a USB stick with some other content (Clonezilla, Knoppix, other Linux...)?
- Rufus: You have to tell Rufus that the image is a dd image (Drop-Down-List, default is FreeDOS...)
- Rufus: Did you bunzip the downloaded image? You specify/select the .img file.

Axel