From nobody Fri Feb 07 22:33:58 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4YqTKV3m1nz5n0m2 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from mail.oetec.com (mail.oetec.com [108.160.241.186]) (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 ECDSA (prime256v1) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.oetec.com", Issuer "E5" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4YqTKT5XmMz3qJN for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:34:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=blastwave.org header.s=default header.b=TrwJNrQX; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dclarke@blastwave.org designates 108.160.241.186 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dclarke@blastwave.org; dmarc=pass (policy=quarantine) header.from=blastwave.org Received: from [172.16.35.3] (pool-99-253-118-250.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.253.118.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.oetec.com (8.17.1/8.17.1) with ESMTPSA id 517MXwLw037803 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:34:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=blastwave.org; s=default; t=1738967640; bh=Tf5r+SjZ7sxk17qJS4J+GWbjLrCbGIpHjjUuJTJ1t9Y=; h=Date:Subject:To:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=TrwJNrQXHlhtcOMgLzdkNsQzz1zKwgY9txHjgYYDoaR8UxxSe0wsXKjdCnkI2AEVe gkhdfKU1j5zhqeqEqiFm3Q9bHSjr2sL4ZOF2tdFNlcVYCcE+LPwpiraRe5VAlSU4yi 5gPiysrBsLLDKr7d0V6K8guIECWacEIS+Bst9r+FedjFsyfn4d1zZ51oSYE0OmUe7i alOmZ40miTyzXY+MK59Ke0gcgxxVAl4ic4uxE1xCesHh8jemz3wTEWL4kNkcmZNTF/ vObV1rR8feWKZUJcJeiEOz7Pm+NdNJflTkeU2/5q37UyRPpzgxFCxt6TurJ25yhFg8 OxnnScChOhXsA== Message-ID: <2c3d0a02-2e5b-40b2-b15d-8cb2585644c8@blastwave.org> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:33:58 -0500 List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Trying an install to a Raspberry PI5 unit Content-Language: en-CA To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <829b0301-b80e-4c35-a0f4-b68d09ff79eb@blastwave.org> From: Dennis Clarke Organization: GENUNIX In-Reply-To: <829b0301-b80e-4c35-a0f4-b68d09ff79eb@blastwave.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-oetec-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-oetec-MailScanner-ID: 517MXwLw037803 X-oetec-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-oetec-MailScanner-From: dclarke@blastwave.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.64 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.94)[-0.938]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[blastwave.org,quarantine]; RCVD_DKIM_ARC_DNSWL_MED(-0.50)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[blastwave.org:s=default]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx:c]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.20)[108.160.241.186:from]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:812, ipnet:108.160.240.0/20, country:CA]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[blastwave.org:+] X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4YqTKT5XmMz3qJN 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. > 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. -- -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken