Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 07:58:51 +0100 From: Paul Floyd <pjfloyd@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying an install to a Raspberry PI5 unit Message-ID: <bb713b7b-42f3-4455-af6c-0088dd23d4ed@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <2c3d0a02-2e5b-40b2-b15d-8cb2585644c8@blastwave.org> References: <829b0301-b80e-4c35-a0f4-b68d09ff79eb@blastwave.org> <2c3d0a02-2e5b-40b2-b15d-8cb2585644c8@blastwave.org>
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On 07-02-25 23:33, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 2/7/25 16:09, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> All : >> >> Today I will be trying to follow the instructions at : >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205 >> >> Instantly the instructions are not clear. Not at all. >> >> I will try to follow along but expect many problems for someone >> that has zero experience with the arm platform. Almost zero. Hmm. Yet you put "ARM" in your signature. > > Copy the unzipped contents to the root of the USB stick. ?? > > What the heck does that mean? There needs to be a partition > table on a USB stick and then a filesystem and what filesystem > here? UFS ? ZFS ? ext4 for Linux? > > These instructions are madness. FAT32. Don't overthink things. If it doesn't say to reformat the drive then don't reformat the drive. I'll update the wiki. A+ Paul
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