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Create a GhostBSD USB SSD 500GB or larger size

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  Create a GhostBSD USB SSD 500GB or larger size This is source file I used.  You have to set global environment variable DISK1 in fish shell  set -gx DISK1 /dev/da0 cat  ./create_ssd_GhostBSD.sh root@omid-ghostbsd-pc /h/o/ssd_test# cat ./create_ssd_Ghostbsd_da1.sh  #!/bin/sh set -e set -x echo " ${DISK1} <--- This is the DISK1 environmental variable, set example: DISK1=/dev/da1; export DISK1 " echo " Made for a 500GB size USB to NVMe style SSD disk style SSD disk  " # echo "If da1 already exists,  use  gpart destroy -F da1  or gpart destroy -F ${DISK1} to clean of partitions on da1 " sleep 6 gpart list ${DISK1} gpart status ${DISK1} gpart show -lp ${DISK1} echo "  create a GPT scheme on ${DISK1} hit ctrl-C to exit. " # test if geom disk list da1  ,  then gpart destroy -F ${DISK1} if gpart status ${DISK1} ; then    gpart show -lp ${DISK1}    echo " Type Ctrl-C  NOW!  to stop destroy ${DISK1}...

January 19, 2024 Howto Download a Raspberry Pi 4B bootable image from http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/

 Download a Raspberry Pi 4B bootable image for a USB Flash drive 16GB or larger size March 6, 2024  update:  use  Feb27_2.img.xz  file http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/    Here is the directory to look at. http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/write_freebsd_img_dd_to_da1.sh   Here is the shell script for GhostBSD / FreeBSD that will download the  FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE image GhostBSD Feb27_2.img.xz  image file. HDMI Audio will eventually be working  Paste in any URL link to download that file using BSD Fetch command 0.)  Select '0' to download the FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE CHECKSUM-RPI text file and compare against the FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE  sha512 checksum value   

Creating Ghost14 aarch64 ARM64 boot image from Klara Systems Document

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Creating Ghost14 aarch64 ARM64 boot image from Klara Systems Document. update Dec/10/2023 Image credit to Klara Systems Document https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-customized-freebsd-images/   Read and study this document to understand how to build a bootable image. you need 3 partitions for a minimal bootable image: ESP EFI FAT32  need a 50MB-760MB FAT32 filesystem GPT partition for the U-BOOT files needed by the raspberry pi 4B, 3B, 400 hardware  label esp SWAP space 2 GB on the USB Flash drive stick or on a USB SSD disk device label swapfs GhostBSD rootfs /  for the UFS file system to exist for booting the /boot/kernel/kernel image file.   If you 'dd' write this Ghost14_selfbuilt.img to a 16GB or larger USB Flash Drive Stick device,  You may resize the UFS file system to fill up the unused partition with a larger file space to fill up to the drive size. label rootfs Use resize command with the disk name, ada0, ada1 da0, da1 camcontrol dev...

FireFox Aarch64 ARM64 FreeBSD Raspberry Pi 4B, Getting Firefox version 1.20.0_2,2 November 20, 2023

 FireFox Aarch64 ARM64 FreeBSD Raspberry Pi 4B,  Getting Firefox version 1.20.0_2,2 November 20, 2023   Last Update: 2023-11-20 21:32:36 https://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/#history     Documenting what I do NOT KNOW how to do very well.       Getting the latest version of FireFox running on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT install to my development system.  Turning off WebGL  with the 'about:config' entry to the search URLs field.   Robonuggie, mentioned this trick to get FireFox not to crash when operating. Fred Finster November 25, 2023  https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com I opened a URVXT Terminal window under XFCE on the FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT O/S running my development workstation on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8 GB dram, HDMI interface to a TV Monitor, and 1 TerraByte SSD connected to the USB 3.0 host port. logged in as user 'fred'.  switch to 'root' user with 'su -' .  cd /root