I created a freebsd bootable memory stick for my mac from which i gened up a dual boot El captitan/freebsd.
My problem is the freebsd gen did not gen my wifi bwi driver. As the ethernet card in my mac is not attached to my home network, to continue the bwi driver installation, bsd's pkg is just a slim program that uses the internet to haul in the wifi driver from the internet as a package and i believe to create the package repository etc.
So i am stuck to complete freebsd install on my mac. ugh ;{
I need to have the internet to do some debugging using dtrace.
Apple has closed down this capability in El Capitan. What remains is just useless --- no user scripts allowed, dtrace probes disabled, and sip just casting its authority to not allow this debugging to be done.
Question: Can i use the full dvd iso image download (just as a file system) and place it on the memory stick but not as a bootable device? Bsd was installed from the memory stick.
The problem is Apple and its dvd device does not create a bootable dvd.
Unetbootin does not create a bootable memory stick for the mac --- probably due to efi partition required.
(ie the memory stick will not be seen by the mac as bootable at start up time)
The efi freebsd img put onto a memory stick created by my mac/el captitan works; this required creating a fat32 disk with a efi partition. I commented on this previously that it is doable and works.
Unfortunately the efi bsd image is a slim requiring internet to import other capabilities.
By creating the memory stick iso without the boot capability(just a file system) from the dvd iso, i believe i should be able to mount it on my freebsd system and copy appropriate files to bsd disk.
And then complete the driver install locally rather than have pkg going out thru my internet which at the moment is nonexistent.
Does this look possible for pkg to run locally by copying appropriate package files to my freebsd master disk?
If so, where can i find the appropriate steps needed to get the packages placed for pkg to do it thing locally from the master disk?
Thank you for considering this request
dave
My problem is the freebsd gen did not gen my wifi bwi driver. As the ethernet card in my mac is not attached to my home network, to continue the bwi driver installation, bsd's pkg is just a slim program that uses the internet to haul in the wifi driver from the internet as a package and i believe to create the package repository etc.
So i am stuck to complete freebsd install on my mac. ugh ;{
I need to have the internet to do some debugging using dtrace.
Apple has closed down this capability in El Capitan. What remains is just useless --- no user scripts allowed, dtrace probes disabled, and sip just casting its authority to not allow this debugging to be done.
Question: Can i use the full dvd iso image download (just as a file system) and place it on the memory stick but not as a bootable device? Bsd was installed from the memory stick.
The problem is Apple and its dvd device does not create a bootable dvd.
Unetbootin does not create a bootable memory stick for the mac --- probably due to efi partition required.
(ie the memory stick will not be seen by the mac as bootable at start up time)
The efi freebsd img put onto a memory stick created by my mac/el captitan works; this required creating a fat32 disk with a efi partition. I commented on this previously that it is doable and works.
Unfortunately the efi bsd image is a slim requiring internet to import other capabilities.
By creating the memory stick iso without the boot capability(just a file system) from the dvd iso, i believe i should be able to mount it on my freebsd system and copy appropriate files to bsd disk.
And then complete the driver install locally rather than have pkg going out thru my internet which at the moment is nonexistent.
Does this look possible for pkg to run locally by copying appropriate package files to my freebsd master disk?
If so, where can i find the appropriate steps needed to get the packages placed for pkg to do it thing locally from the master disk?
Thank you for considering this request
dave