GhostBSD ARM64 porting from x86 code base (RISC-V in the future??)

NetBSD aarch64 10.0  install on Raspberry Pi 4B,   wahoo it works, Fred!  Well, this is a good accomplishment for May 7th 2024. Installing NetBSD 10.0 on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8Gigs.     May 7th is also my son Conner Louis Tilley:    7lbs, 7 ounces, born on the 7th of May.  My little triple 7 ( in the next month June of 1995 Boeing announced the Triple Seven, 777 model Dreamliner Airplane ) arrived into my Life,  my son,  Connor Louis Tilley. https://www.facebook.com/connor.tilley.2903   He is a video games developer with Amazon Games When did the Boeing Triple Seven, 777 come out? The Boeing 777 is a family of wide-body twin-engine commercial jet aircraft with variants for both passenger and cargo transportation. The 777 was first flown on June 12, 1994, and commercial service commenced on June 7, 1995. So there are 2 objectives to accomplish when setting up NetBSD 10.0 for a Raspberry Pi 4B.   Download and...

   January 18 2024 More Random notes on GhostBSD 14.0-STABLE O/S bring up      Be patient and wait for memory checking to complete before blindly typing ctrl-C.   Have fun wildly swinging the mouse arrow cursor around the screen. Sort of Like Pong?   Edit the /mnt/esp msdosfs  config.txt file to modify the video output to fit INSIDE the borders of the screen. overscan_left=100 overscan_right=25 overscan_top=30 overscan_bottom=24 On a Samsung TV you may adjust the video: use the remote "menu" button ---> Picture --> Right arrow button,  Down arrow button to Picture Size --> Enter Button or Right arrow button.   Make your selection " Screen Fit "  Enter Button.  Down arrow button to Position.  Use the 4 arrow buttons to move the picture position around.  When adjusted, Hit Enter ,  Down arrow to "Close" menu Enter Button ,  then Hit Return button or Exit Button.   Happy Fu...

 How to install GhostBSD-Arm64 into a USB Flash Drive stick January 5, 2024 edition, update April 24 2024 The steps below are based on using a Raspberry Pi 4B,3B,400 computer, running sh shell scripts using FreeBSD or GhostBSD-ARM64.    1.)  You can  may run these scripts on a standard X86_64 PC booting a live image of https://GhostBSD.org/download    " latest build " or the regular released version, then written to a USB flash Drive for booting up a live media version of GhostBSD or    booting a snapshot .ISO image of FreeBSD.  updated March 2, 2025 https://freebsd.org/where    FreeBSD.org/where   13.2-RELEASE or 14.2-RELEASE https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.2/   https://ghostbsd.org/download   Direct download from Canada, France, South Africa or a Torrent download  for x86_64  GhostBSD image   Brian Hughes, creates a GhostBSD 25.01R14.2p1 release video https:/...

ZFS boot on root  setup for  a USB SSD http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/   Where to find files ? Here use this link.   http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/gh14_Dec30_arm64_create_disk.tar.gz Download this file to a working directory on your GhostBSD live media or a working FreeBSD machine. xz --decompress --keep gh14_Dec30_arm64_create_disk.tar.gz Use the file dd_ghost14.sh  shell script to 'dd' write the image file: http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/Ghost14_5g_selfbuilt_raspi4b_Jan22_0.img.xz    Ghost14_5g_selfbuilt_raspi4b_Jan22_0.img  file into a USB flash drive /dev/da1 Shell scripts to create the USB SSD, and the captured output listings It is hard to remember the details of creating a partition without a tested script. Also look at a PuppyLinux_or_PCBSD blog post on reading about ZFS create: http://puppylinux-or-pcbsd.blogspot.com/2023/03/zpool-create-zfs-create-how-to-use-disk.html   https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/co...

Adding Multiple Repositories to GhostBSD-Arm64 install to Raspberry Pi 4 For Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B, 400 I have GhostBSD-Arm64 running from this image in this directory http://76.14.239.229/packages/   http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/Ghost14_selfbuilt_raspi4b_Dec12_3.img.xz December 12, 2023  image to 'dd' write into a USB flash drive and insert into a blue USB 3.0 connector on the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B, 400 I installed multiple repositories, so I did NOT have to Poudriere Build 30,000 pkgs.  Just build the pkgs for installing XFCE Desktop Environment.  I want pkgs Abiword, Dia, xfce-screenshooter also to use for my minimal desktop.  I had issues with compiling Firefox browser, So I thought I might use the Firefox-ESR that FreeBSD built.  PersonalBSD  has several packages built in the last few days of November, December 2023.  Ok, Yes, multiple repositories might create some problems.  We can deal with that issue when it arises.  I ...

 Look inside the USB Flash drive partition structure for GhostBSD-Arm64   Notice the boot, esp flags activated for the ESP FAT32 partition sdc1 Kingston 128GB USB 3.0 Flash drive This is the contents view of gparted application on /dev/sdc USB 3.0 Flash Drive.  I think the software uses the Logical Block Address LBA of the disk and not the virtual  Heads, Sectors, & Cylinders view of a disk drive.   Partition 1,2,3 on USB Flash drive  50MB ESP EF00, 2GB Swap A502, 10GB A503 Here are the 3 partitions comprising the GhostBSD-ARM64 USB flash drive written from file Ghost14_selfbuilt.img  file.  Note, ESP type EF00  FreeBSD-swap A502, FreeBSD-ufs A503 Note the regular  menu commands:   i, l, p i   show detailed information on a partition p  print the partition table contents l  list the know Partition Types Information and attribute fields setings,  None set here Expert menu of gdisk command  Note: a...