Solved Installing FreeBSD 13.0 -Release

[heusini]

Hey all,

I am new and wanted to install FreeBSD alongside my Windows 10. Currently, there exists a Ubuntu partition as a dual boot that I want to override. Unfortunately, the ISO/Memstick image I downloaded does not boot.
I get the error:
/etc/hostid not found
and /etc/entropy not found.

I use UEFI and an older i5-3570k and a Nvidia GPU.

It is similar/same to this issue: FreeBSD vs.13 installation from bootable USB fails with 'can't find /etc/hostid' + 'can't find /boot/entropy'

The solution in this topic is to use a snapshot but the link is dead. I also kind of want a stable environment for my first steps with BSD and would be happy to use the RELEASE version of FreeBSD.

Can someone help me direct me on how to solve this?

 

[heusini]

I got it to work.
This is the link that I used:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.1/

With that image, I could boot from USB.

The releases folder is maybe the better place to look for ISO-Images. (https://download.freebsd.org/releases(

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Welcome to FreeBSD Forums.

November 2021:

… most recent -current and -stable vs.
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/ …

… link is dead. …

… I used:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.1/ …

There will be no more snapshots of 13.0, because for 13.1 the release engineering process began a few weeks ago.

Was your download, yesterday, of -RC2 (release candidate 2)?

Release candidate 3 was announced a few hours after your post. Please be prepared to upgrade, as described in the announcement that's linked from <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/563610>.