FreeBSD-RC3

[fernandel]

Hi!

I did downloaded FreeBSD-RC3 image (*.img) and there is also *.img.txz. Is installation to USB stick the same.
I did: dd if=FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da1 bs=1m
When I connected the stick in /dev I have:
-da1
-da1s1
-da1s2
-da1s2a

I can mount just da1s2a

Thank you.

 

[tuxador]

You just have to boot from this usb stick to get the bsd-installer or to run the live shell.

 

[scottro]

If it's an xz file, first you have to decompress it.

xz -d FreeBSD-whatever.img.xz

Then you'll see the FreeBSD-whatever.img file and then use the dd command.
To see which is the USB stick, you can plug it in and do dmesg|tail or use camcontrol for which you need root privilege, so assuming you use sudo
sudo camcontrol devlist

In my case, I know that if I plug in a USB it is almost always showing as /dev/da4 so I usually do
sudo camcontrol devlist |grep da4
to be sure. Because, and probably a lot of us know this from experience, it's a REALLY annoying thing to casually do dd if=whatever of=whatever and find out that you've overwritten a drive with your O/S, stored files, or, indeed, anything you value.

 

[SirDice]

da1s1 needs to be mounted with msdosfs(5). It's an efi partition, which is FAT.