Re: Trying an install to a Raspberry PI5 unit

Paul Floyd <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

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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