SD card -image- for the beaglebone

[Tim Kientzle]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:02 AM, Iain Young wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have just taken delivery of a few Beaglebones that I am intending to
> do some NTP Work. With FreeBSD having one of the better reputations
> with regards to Time and PPS etc, I thought I would install FreeBSD on
> at least one of them.
> 
> Unfortunately, all of the guides I've found all assume you have a
> FreeBSD box already running. Unfortunately, I don't, and nor do I have
> a spare x86 box to do so.
> 
> Does anyone have an *image* of a base install for a 4 Gig microSD
> card that I can download ? Preferably with ssh and dhcp installed
> (yes, I know about blowing away the keys), as that would avoid having
> to rely on the console.
> 
> Quite happy to rebuild the kernel and world afterwards (yes, I know I
> need an 8 Gig SD card), but it's just this bootstrapping problem thats
> an issue…

I just uploaded a BeagleBone SD image that people can play with.

http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/FreeBSD-BEAGLEBONE-r246229-noWITNESS-8g-2013-02-02.img.xz

This is:
   * Based on SVN r246229
   * Completely vanilla build from SVN except as noted below
   * Includes my new CPSW driver (not yet committed to SVN)
   * Sized for an 8G card
   * WITNESS and INVARIANTS are disabled
   * NFSCL and NFSLOCKD enabled
   * Has a user "beagle" with password "beagle" that you can login with SSH

If you'd like to build your own, this image was built with the scripts I've been maintaining on Github using the following config.sh file:

board_setup BeagleBone
SD_SIZE=$((7900 * MB))
customize_freebsd_partition ( ) {
    # 768M swap file /usr/swap0
    disk_add_swap_file 768
    # Home directory for user accounts
    mkdir -p $1/home
    # Add a user "beagle:beagle" with password "beagle"
    pw -V $1/etc groupadd beagle -g 1001
    # 'pw' doesn't let you set the Password, but -w makes it same as username
    pw -V $1/etc useradd beagle -u 1001 -g beagle -m -k $1/etc/skel -w yes
}

If you have ideas for improving this, I'm very interested.

Cheers,

Tim