Something not-so-common…

Note: Need to test this…

• Get the desired packages on a FreeBSD machine with internet connection

    # mkdir /root/offline
    # pkg fetch -d -o /root/offline xorg mate slim firefox

  • -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

    # pkg -U install xorg mate slim firefox git geany networkmgr

  • -U is the short form for –no-repo-update

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 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 this…

to be continued…

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.

• 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…