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Test Mount MBR ExFAT factory partition of a Samsung T7 500GB USB SSD disk for a Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard, or a Raspberry Pi 5 Hardware with FreeBSD O/S

Test Mount MBR ExFAT factory partition of a Samsung T7 500GB USB SSD disk for a Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard, or a Raspberry Pi 5 Hardware with FreeBSD O/S Test mount Samsung T7 USB SSD normal EXFAT 7 partition as from the factory. freebsd@generic:~ % mount /dev/ufs/rootfs on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) devfs on /dev (devfs) /dev/msdosfs/EFI on /boot/efi (msdosfs, local, noatime) tmpfs on /tmp (tmpfs, local) freebsd@generic:~ % mount /dev/ufs/rootfs on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) devfs on /dev (devfs) /dev/msdosfs/EFI on /boot/efi (msdosfs, local, noatime) tmpfs on /tmp (tmpfs, local)   freebsd@generic:~ % cd /mnt/usb freebsd@generic:/mnt/usb % ls freebsd@generic:/mnt/usb % ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel 512 Nov 26 06:42 . drwxr-xr-x  7 root wheel 512 Nov 26 06:42 .. freebsd@generic:/mnt/usb % mount /dev/ufs/rootfs on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) devfs on /dev (devfs) /dev/msdosfs/EFI on /boot/efi (msdosfs, local, noatime) tmpfs on /tmp (tmpfs...

Ansible scripts, help me remember HOW TO partition a USB SSD disk.

Ansible scripts,  help me remember HOW TO partition a USB SSD disk.  Use Ansible to save scripts to  partition a 500GB USB SSD for a Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard model, running  FreeBSD ( well GhostBSD-Arm64 in the future,  anticipation ) Based on this article HowTo  Ansible with FreeBSD,    https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-prepare-freebsd-server-to-be-managed-by-ansible-tool/   OTHER Ansible URLs:   https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd+ansible+core&ia=web https://nickgeorge.net/bootstrap-ansible-freebsd/   Bootstrap Ansible on FreeBSD; good play books https://www.adminbyaccident.com/freebsd/how-to-freebsd/how-to-install-ansible-on-freebsd/  Install ansible on FreeBSD,  admin by accident   https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=FreeBSD_14&p=ansible&f=1#google_vignette FreeBSD 14 install ansible  April 2024 https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible-core/2.19/os_guide/intro_bsd.html   ...

FreeBSD 14.3 : Booting FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard model BCM2712 D0 stepping. ASIX8872A USB to Ethernet Controller

 Booting  FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 500 Keyboard model BCM2712 D0 stepping.   ASIX8872A USB to Ethernet Controller https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2025-October/005313.html   Ronald Klop https://wiki.freebsd.org/RonaldKlop/Raspberry%20Pi%205%2016GB   Steps for booting on 16GB  RPI5    Give this a test drive on your RPI 5.  Check the MD5DEEP  files audit values, from this source   md5deep -Zltr *    From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:39:10 UTC Hi, Don't know if it helps, but I wrote down what I did yesterday evening with my RPI5 16GB. https://wiki.freebsd.org/RonaldKlop/Raspberry%20Pi%205%2016GB   https://wiki.freebsd.org/RonaldKlop/Raspberry%20Pi%205%2016GB    newfs_msdos /dev/da0p1 Copied the content of the rpi5-uefi zip to the ms-basic-data partition https://github.com/NumberOneGit/rpi5-uefi/releases/download/v0.1/RPI5_D0.zip mount -t msd...