Re: pfsense and the Trigkey Green G1 mini-computer

On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:10 -0500, Tom Browder 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?

It's not like you install FreeBSD and then somehow add OPNsense to it.
You just install OPNsense.

Which hardware to use depends on your requirements and expectations.