Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:15:28 +0100 From: "John W. Kitz" <John.Kitz@xs4all.nl> To: <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Creating FreeBSD/arm bootable SD card for Cubieboards from FreeBSD 11.0 image files for Wintel only users. Message-ID: <001401d24277$c3e48300$4bad8900$@Kitz@xs4all.nl>
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Hi, I believe I haven't seen an answer to my question yet. The reason for asking is that in the early to mid '90's I ran an early version (I'm guessing something like 5.x or 6.x) of FreeBSD for a while on an old PC, which, although it had a CD-ROM drive, could only boot from its floppy drive. At the time that wasn't a problem because the FreeBSD project provided a utility named fdimage, which allowed users to create a bootable floppy from an image file, boot from that floppy and continue the installation process from CD-ROM. To rephrase my question; am I correct in assuming that the FreeBSD release 11.0 SD-card image file contains everything one needs to do a first time installation of FreeBSD on a cubieboard or cubieboard2? I.e. I do not or do no longer need to install the SPL loader and U-boot programs on the SD-card, since they are either an integral part of or not needed when using the image file. Regards, Jk.
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