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From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:33:58 UTC

On 2/7/25 16:09, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 
> All :
> 
>      Today I will be trying to follow the instructions at :
> 
>          https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205
> 
>      Instantly the instructions are not clear. Not at all.
> 
>      I will try to follow along but expect many problems for someone
>      that has zero experience with the arm platform. Almost zero.
> 

     Copy the unzipped contents to the root of the USB stick. ??

     What the heck does that mean? There needs to be a partition
     table on a USB stick and then a filesystem and what filesystem
     here? UFS ? ZFS ? ext4 for Linux?

     These instructions are madness.



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Dennis Clarke
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UNIX and Linux spoken