some general questions regarding freebsd on rasp pi

[Paul Mather]

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I didn't think it was a 64 bit ARM - use the RPI2 image. :)

+1

The Raspberry Pi 2 isn't a 64-bit ARM device.  I can confirm for the original poster, though, that the RPI2 image works nicely as a way of doing the initial install.

Cheers,

Paul.

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> 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:
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>> 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
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>> OR
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>> 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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