Re: What happened to 16?

On 2025-12-08 11:03, S. Ross Gohlke wrote:
> On 12/8/25 01:37, Chris wrote:
>> I just got a new laptop and tried to boot 13.5,14 and 15
>> but it hangs at the video -- something about loosing contact
>> with sc. So I went to get a copy of 16. But download.freebsd.org
>> doesn't know where it is. All the links to it from FreeBSD.org
>> return 404.
>> 
>> So where is it?
>> 
>> Thanks! :-)
> You can generate your own artifacts from pkgbase packages installed in an 
> alternate root.
> 
> Add the package repository configuration:
> 
>     FreeBSD-base: {
>       url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_latest",
>       mirror_type: "srv",
>       signature_type: "fingerprints",
>       fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>       enabled: yes
>     }
> 
> To generate src.txz:
> 
>     # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/src install FreeBSD-set-src
>     # tar -acof /var/tmp/src.txz -C /mnt/src usr/src
> 
> To generate base.txz:
> 
>     # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/base install FreeBSD-set-base
>     # mtree -deiU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /mnt/base
>     # mtree -deiU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /mnt/base/usr
>     # tar -acof /var/tmp/base.txz -C /mnt/base .
> 
> The mtree commands may or may not be necessary, but in my case I expect 
> /usr/obj to exist.
> 
> If you want to pretend like this never happened, remove the package 
> repository
> configuration and database ($PKG_DBDIR/repos/FreeBSD-base) once you have the
> artifacts.
> 
> You will still have the packages, which you could exclude from your normal 
> cache
> by setting PKG_CACHEDIR in the above pkg commands.
REALLY appreciate all the insight on this and your taking the time to do 
this, Ross.

Thanks!

--Chris

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