Solved Building NanoBSD

Phishfry said:
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Building mfsBSD

I've been using mfsBSD for several years, but never mastered the art of buiding, so Thought I'd have another go after reading:- https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/remote-install/#preparation where it says: 3.2. Building an mfsBSD Image The process of building an mfsBSD image is pretty...
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Since posting that, I've managed to build mfsBSD without much of a problem. The only issue I have at the moment is trying to build it with support for NFS.
 
I finally figured out what I had done wrong! Now I've managed to boot NanoBSD on my ThinkPad X61...

What I need to do was copy all the files from da0s1a to a new partition on my hard disk, and boot up... I hadn't previously figured out the contents of the USB stick created by nanobsd.sh.

Many thanks to Phishfry for his patience in helping me get through this.
 
balanga said:
What I need to do was copy all the files from da0s1a to a new partition on my hard disk
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That sounds exactly like a single slice from the image. I still believe you are working with wrong image.
Whatever it still works. Now that you got your feet wet it is time to do it right. Make a config file.
You dd the image to medium.

Remember its read only. Any program config files go in /cfg
 
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