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building a FreeBSD 16.0 CURRENT image for Raspberry Pi 500 ( ie 5) Keyboard model

 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010157378785.html  looking at 8 arm core board with 16gb dram Download Raspberry Pi image file 16.0-CURRENT using curl command and checksum md5 the image [kliktel-pc FreeBSD ]# curl -O https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/16.0/FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20260224-168 22dac32ab-284159.img.xz  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed 100  577M  100  577M    0     0  2458k      0  0:04:00  0:04:00 --:--:-- 2344k [kliktel-pc...

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   ...