FreeBSD on Raspberry PI

Installation

Download OS image and place it onto SD card. Boot it. Default user accounts are:

Change root’s password:

passwd

Change the default freebsd user:

pw usermod freebsd -l kuban -g staff -c Kuban -s /bin/sh
mv /home/freebsd /home/kuban
pw usermod kuban -d /home/kuban

Change the password for user kuban:

passwd

Setup static network in rc.conf:

hostname="ns3"
ifconfig_ue0="inet 192.168.88.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.88.1"

Configure resolver:

cat <<EOR > /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.96.2
domain tekkirk.org
EOR

FreeBSD upgrade doesn’t work:

freebsd-update fetch

Bootstrap pkg:

pkg update

Install packages