recreate FreeBSD 12 ARM image

[Robert Crowston]

You don't say how you obtained your installation image in the first place. I have found the "crochet" tool is quite good. (https://github.com/freebsd/crochet)

It will cross-compile a kernel and userland for you from source, and then spit out a .img ready to dd onto an SD card. You can tweak the default kernel configuration ("GENERIC") to be better suited to your hardware platform.

There are hooks for you to install your own software onto the image as well.




‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Sunday, 14 July 2019 14:34, Stefan Parvu <sparvu at kronometrix.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Suppose I have installed FreeBSD 12 on a 32GB microSD under RBPI3B+ and I have
> configure it as I want, add my own software and now I want to re-create the image as
> small as possible say as the original. Is it possible to do something like this ? Anyone
> any advices, tips how can you do this ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefan Parvu
> sparvu at kronometrix.org
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