some general questions regarding freebsd on rasp pi

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 16:35:00 UTC 2015


I didn't think it was a 64 bit ARM - use the RPI2 image. :)



-a


On 1 September 2015 at 08:50, John <freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm in a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation with regard to installing freebsd
> on a raspberry pi 2 b+. This pi as I understand it is 64-bit, has 1GB RAM.
> I want to use it to run exim, sshd, mutt, slrn and a few other bits. I've been
> looking for a repository of info for all things freebsd-arm but haven't come up
> with much useful and *recent*. Would be grateful if some kind soul could answer
> the following:
>
> 1. is it just a question of grabbing the iso, burning it to sd card and
> rebooting the pi?
>
> 2. if [1] is true, for this 64-bit pi, do I use
> FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150826-r287169.img.xz
>
> OR
>
> FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20150818-r286893-memstick.img.xz
>
> given that I want to run 64-bit?
>
> Is there a how-to or walk-through for arm/arm64 that is recent? If there
> is, I can't find it.
>
> many thanks,
> --
> John
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