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The NANO_LABEL variable needs to be set in order for the image to be portable in the way I explained earlier in this thread. I was able to completely omit the NANO_DRIVE variable, setting just the NANO_LABEL variable and the system booted right up when I tried the both the regular sata or usb...

I referred to the Poudriere image:

Looks like there's label support for NanoBSD at least in a BSDRP patch. Would Poudreire be possibly better in this regard through the efi support? Can FreeBSD use guid to look for the right drive?

Ok, I've accidentally left it at the screen, so it turns out that it just sits there on every boot for a minute and then starts booting. Why the wait I wonder? I've played around and yes, the NANO_DRIVE variable if set incorrectly will not let the os boot showing an error message. If the...

I've finally found an hdd to try out the default NanoBSD image. The drive was id'ed as a da0 device by FreeBSD, so i went ahead and ran the dd command just like the 'man nanobsd' suggests. It completed successfully and the corresponding slices now show up under /dev. However when i try to boot...

If i end up actually using NanoBSD, i'll prolly have regular FreeBSD installed on another machine (VM etc) to make sure the problems i run into apply to either FreeBSD in general or specific to NanoBSD. Yes, the ro slices sound good, but NanoBSD gives more trimming and customization options out...

To correct myself, NANO_MEDIASIZE=3200000 does not correspond to 3gig, more like 1.5gig. However it failed again with the same error. Everything default 11.2 release amd64 i was able to make it happy with NANO_MEDIASIZE=4400000. Found out the hard way

NANO_MEDIASIZE=3200000, is that 3gig? How is that lightweight? BSDRP's info is great indeed. Yes, Poudreire was the kind of a possible alternative i was looking for

after nanobsd.sh ran for almost 4 hours i get /usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.mnt: write failed, filesystem is full and according to this that's normal?

Figured it was. It's the Introduction to NanoBSD doc last modified over 4 years ago. The handbook is fine though

jpierri, then you can probably help with this. I got the 11.2 disc1, but can't find the NanoBSD script on it. Hoping it is on dvd1, obviously it'll take a little longer to dl it. Where did you get yours from?

Bobi B, that sounds like NanoBSD is possibly better: less ram use, as opposed to alpine, where everything runs from ram. It's definitely not going to be a dev box. First of all, robustness: i run alpine from a removable flash storage, the amount of writes is very important. This also means less...

ondra_knezour, i plan to check those out kpa, 'avoid writing to the disk too much'. Under what circumstances does it write to the disk? What's a slice in this context? It sounds very similar to how it's done in alpine. In alpine no writes are done unless requested: the os is meant to always be...

Considering NanoBSD for a desktop os. Is NanoBSD a run from ram thing? How much ram would be recommended? Main question is, are there alternatives? I'm currently using alpine linux diskless and that thing based on musl and busybox is 'just what the doctor ordered' for a low power machine...

my hardware doesn't have s4bios and Linux hibernated and resumed it successfully. The way the handbook puts it, basically if Linux can, FreeBSD can. Besides, I don't have the symptoms the handbook describes such as system hang, panics, powering up after suspend, buggy bios code. It seems that it...

so I tried acpiconf -s4: FreeBSD did something and then the laptop went off as if it successfully hibernated. When I powered back on, FreeBSD started up as if I did a cold shutdown, showing messages like "system marked clean", etc. After acpiconf -s3 the laptop was showing a flashing power led...

2 more reasons: portmaster's -G parameter and being able to see the list of deps

I grabbed some old version of a port with portdowngrade and renamed the folder. Now I want to install it with portmaster because I want to create packages. I don't want to copy the folder to the port tree or create a symlink. Is there any other way to tell portmaster to install the port that's...

the documentation calls explicitly against clang, so I'm back to gcc now. Kpa's suggestion got me past the original error. Here's what I'm facing now: g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-Qunused-arguments' Would appreciate any help with it

Thanks for your timely replies. The source is intended to compile on Linux. Don't worry about the error above anymore, I deleted gcc and installed clang instead, now it's going strong for a while way past the above error spot. I have another question. There is a configure parameter that I need...