====== 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
  * write to microsd card
  * boot issue
    * ok if boot from usb (note: starting pi4, usb boot is possible!) 
    * need to update u-boot binary (look for that in forum)
  * console display is not ok when using on tv (high res?)
    * edit config.txt and comment out hdmi_safe=1 

going for dwm
  * pkg install libX11 libXft libXinerama
  * pkg install git

//work in progress...//