From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 22 15:56:30 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1155744BD71 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CHBms6S8Qz43vw for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:56:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) (Authenticated sender: matthew/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94317193EE for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:56:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from PD0786.local (130.31-255-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk [62.255.31.130]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB1BF1BEBA for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/DB1BF1BEBA; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: How to get to base.txz in the install image file To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5F91A3D3.7010304@gmail.com> From: matthew@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <9fbeecd1-4da2-ae84-68fa-1a212c2ab635@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:56:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5F91A3D3.7010304@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:56:30 -0000 On 22/10/2020 16:22, Ernie Luzar wrote: > I want to target the base.txz file in the release.img install file. > After downloading the release.img file how do I open it and point to the > base.txz file? Is there a way? You can just download base.txz direct from the FreeBSD FTP servers. eg: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/12.1-RELEASE/base.txz That's the same as goes into the release images. Make the obvious substitutions for different CPU architectures or release versions. To answer your actual question: try tar(1). It can read a lot of disk-image formats. Not sure about the .img file, but it can certainly read .iso images. Cheers, Matthew