FreeBSD DVD installer on aarch64

Phishfry

Phishfry

I just noticed the DVD installer for FreeBSD on aarch64.

It don't make sense to me because DVD edition is mainly for desktop.
It even includes an Xorg one if I am not mistaken.
But most all dbus based desktops are broke on aarch64 right?

Whats the deal? Anybody try it? Boot from DVD-ROM on Arm? Does it install packages?
I know when I messed with the DVD image years ago it had packages included for a desktop.

How do you flash u-boot to DVD-ROM? Weird. Bootstrap with u-boot on SD then run dvd install I can only guess.

Experiences?
 
You could mdconfig the ISO and install u-boot that way.
I don't know if sectors act the same on ISO though.
 
the brom code most likely wont boot from usb-cd so you need some in between code which would be u-boot from a small sd card or spi flash
 
i doubt there are many downloads for isos even on amd64/i386
the cool thing about iso is that you can extract files from it directly with tar (bsd and mac, linux not tested)
 
Unlike image files then.... That is nice I will look at aarch64 bootonly.iso I just grabbed.

I was complaining about that the other day. Fancy GUI Archivers cant see inside disk image files.
 
Nice archivers/engrampa opens ISO but Read Only.

Thats all I want. Browse internal image files.

If I need to write I will memdisk them.

Can you write to ISO from mdconfig or is that RO as well?
I remember there is an ISO disk type in mdconfig. Never used it.
 
iirc sessions work somehow like dtb overlays so you can add new versions over and the older are not visibile in the fs but im not sure, this is from dos days when writing warez :)
 
alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc
Download 46 parts for a photoshop plugin and stitch together. Of course using Forte Agent with hacked key.

Do you remember the early leak of TombRaider that was still in development?
 
in the early 90's the scene was kind of flourishing around here
there was no online distribution just for cracks and loaders and such (i ran a bbs)
public internet access came after 95 and sucked
the stuff was coming mostly from western europe via ex yugoslavia
my friend had a ricoh cd writer (1x) scsi external like 3x the height of a common one
nobody bought licensed software and very few tried to sell
there was no copyright law for software or if it was nobody enforced it
we alway had our hardrives full of crap we never used like countless versions of autocads, 3dstudios, page maker
sierra online games and whatnot
 
Phishfry said:
They certainly are dogging the build server with a 4GB image nobody uses.
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I forgot about the Arm64 desktops that do exist and can probably use the image.
ThunderX and Ampre have stuff right? Pricey but works on FreeBSD. Gigabyte has a nice rack mount Arm64.
Some platforms ship with ACPI BIOS.
 
Phishfry said:
… It don't make sense to me because DVD edition is mainly for desktop.
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I guess, it's present for consistency more than for completeness.

64-bit ARMv8 (aarch64) as one of only two Tier 1 platforms.

It even includes an Xorg one if I am not mistaken.
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True.

github.com

freebsd-src/release/scripts/pkg-stage.sh at releng/14.0 · freebsd/freebsd-src

The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests.... - freebsd/freebsd-src
github.com github.com

But most all dbus based desktops are broke on aarch64 right? …
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I have no idea. <https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/#_kde_on_freebsd> no mention.

arrowd any idea? TIA
 
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