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--- freebsd:freebsd_4cases [2025/01/16 08:50] – created azman
+++ freebsd:freebsd_4cases [2025/02/14 13:06] (current) – ↷ Links adapted because of a move operation azman
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-====== FreeBSD on RasPi400 ======
+====== FreeBSD Special Cases ======
+Something not-so-common...
+===== Offline Installation =====
+//**Note**: Need to test this... :-P//
+  * Get the desired packages on a FreeBSD machine with internet connection<code>
+  # mkdir /root/offline
+  # pkg fetch -d -o /root/offline xorg mate slim firefox</code>
+    * ''-d'' for dependencies
+    * ''-o'' specifies destination path for the fetched packages
+  * Copy those files to a portable USB drive
+  * On the target machine, copy everything to /var/cache/pkg
+  * Then, do a <code>  # pkg -U install xorg mate slim firefox git geany networkmgr</code>
+    * ''-U'' is the short form for ''--no-repo-update''
+===== USB Thumb-Drive Installation =====
+I want to try to install to a USB thumb-drive... from my FreeBSD virtual machine (VirtualBox). I have a 16GB USB3 Kingston Data Traveller drive, and already installed FreeBSD 12 on a virtual machine.
+To prepare the drive layout, checkout [[freebsd:freebsd_prep_bootusb|here]]. I'm going to prepare for UEFI boot on a GPT formatted disk.
+- plug in usb drive
+  * find device name (i.e. /dev/???)
+  * usually da0 is the first usb drive?
+- refer to [[https://gist.github.com/johnko/fa763b97f0a4671a3c60|this]]...
+//to be continued...//
+===== Dual-Boot on UEFI Systems =====
+Find ''boot1.efi'' as place it in EFI System Partition. It will look for first partition with type freebsd-ufs  (which can even be on another disk) and load ''loader.efi''.
+===== Install on SSD =====
+//**Note:** Generally, it seems that this is no longer an issue - some just did a normal install and have no problems at all. But, I want to put this here anyways.//
+Creating partitions (from: https://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html)
+<code>
+# gpart create -s gpt ada0
+# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 1m -a 4k -l ssdboot ada0
+# gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i1 ada0
+# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l ssdroot -b 1m -s 4g ada0
+# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l ssdvarfs -a 1m -s 2g ada0
+# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l ssdusrfs -a 1m ada0
+# newfs -U -t /dev/gpt/ssdrootfs
+# newfs -U -t /dev/gpt/ssdvarfs
+# newfs -U -t /dev/gpt/ssdusrfs
+</code>
+create fstab (save as /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/ fstab)
+<code>
+# Device	Mountpoint	FStype	Options	Dump	Pass#
+/dev/gpt/ssdroot	/	ufs	rw	1	1
+/dev/gpt/ssdvarfs	/var	ufs	rw	2	2
+/dev/gpt/ssdusrfs	/usr	ufs	rw	2	2
+tmpfs	/tmp	tmpfs	rw,mode=01777	0	0
+</code>
+===== FreeBSD on RasPi400 =====
   * got FreeBSD13 arm64 aarch64 image