Re: pfsense and the Trigkey Green G1 mini-computer

Go to OPNsense website and read the instructions. It's a fully-fledged OS.

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:12 PM Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 08:22 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> > On 12/05/2022 13:30, Tom Browder wrote:
> > > I am not a FreeBSD user (yet), but I'm trying to install a pfsense
> > > image onto the SSD of a Trigkey Green G1 mini-computer and haven't
> > > been able to do so yet due to its apparently locked-down Windows OS.
> ...
> > I don't know the specific device, but things that start out as Windows
> > boxes usually tend to have secure boot enabled these days. It's a while
> > since I last fought Windows but I think you may have to boot into
> > Windows and then tell it you want to do a maintenance boot and then
> > catch it during boot to get into the BIOS to turn off secure booting.
> > It's a rigmarole, and if you get the timing wrong you have to start
> again.
> ...
> > Final note: you might want to look at OPNsense as an alternative to
> > pfSense. I'm in the process of switching as pfSense appears to be more
> > commercially oriented these days.
>
> Can you or anyone else recommend a suitable micro-computer that I can
> install FreeBSD on to run OPNsense?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Tom
>
>

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