Solved fetch packages from another OS

[oOiOo]

The generic image for armv7 is not bootable: you need to install uboot ( for your board) which is supplied as a package. But the packages server(s) is not directly accessible (Err 403)

http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:armv7/quarterly/All/

So, for new comers, they need to install FreeBSD to install FreeBSD . Arm boards are great to test various operating systems. Is there a way to fetch a package from another OS?

Regards.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Do you have networking going. If not, why not ?

 

[oOiOo]

Do you have networking going. If not, why not ?

Well, the basic idea is to download the generic image, flash it to a sd card and install uboot from a macOS or any *NIX system.

 

[k3y5]

What board are you trying to test with? Do you have access to a serial console?

 

[oOiOo]

What board are you trying to test with? Do you have access to a serial console?

I don't try to test a board. I have ton (well many) ARM or AMD64 machine running FreeBSD and they just works fine. But from a new comer point of view, how to install FreeBSD on generic ARM board?

 

[covacat]

install the u-boot package on another box and and prepare the image
(follow the docs/readme in /usr/local/share/u-boot-xxxx
mostly you dd uboot binary over the image or sd card
to find pkg url use this on a freebsd box
pkg search -Q url u-boot

 

[monwarez]

You can fetch http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:armv7/quarterly/packagesite.txz
Extract it
And then assuming textproc/jq
You can get all of u-boot related files:
cat packagesite.yaml | jq 'select(.name | contains("u-boot")) | .path'

Then you can directly fetch the one that you want by combining (using the last entry as an example: "All/u-boot-cubieboard-2023.01.pkg"

http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:armv7/quarterly/All/u-boot-cubieboard-2023.01.pkg