Re: Trying an install to a Raspberry PI5 unit
- Reply: Dennis Clarke : "Re: Trying an install to a Raspberry PI5 unit"
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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 06:58:51 UTC
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