How-To Install FreeBSD ARM.

Following document covers installation guide for FreeBSD ARM.

Build Environment

First of all we need to set up a building environment. The building environment will compile the sources to the boards ARM architecture.

I hardly recommend to use FreeBSD as OS for building the ARM image. If you do not use FreeBSD as default OS run it in a VM.

Installation

Following command downloads the latest FreeBSD release image:

curl -O ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/9.1/FreeBSD-9.1/RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso

Load it into the VM and follow the installation guide. I recommend to keep the installation as minimal as possible. However settings, partitioning, etc are not that important as we only require the environment for building.

Setting Up Environment

In the following we will set up the building environment.

First set some global variables:

echo "WITHOUT_X11=YES" >> /etc/make.conf 
echo "WITH_PKGNG=YES" >> /etc/make.conf

Install git some dev tools we require later on:

pkg_add -r git gmake gsed subversion

Download FreeBSD sources:

svn co svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head /usr/src

build the cross compiling tools:

cd /usr/src && make XDEV=arm XDEV_ARCH=armv6 xdev

and now we can clone crochet-freebsd with:

git clone git://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd.git && cd crochet-freebsd

now we need the u-boot sources:

ftp ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-2013.04.tar.bz2 && tar xf u-boot-2013.04.tar.bz2

add the auditdistd user (we require this for make world):

pw useradd -n auditdistd -g audit -c "Auditdistd unprivileged user" -d /var/empty -s /usr/sbin/nologin

and then execute the final setup script:

./crochet.sh -b BeagleBone

Note: If the build fails on some point try to update the sources with svn and retry!

Post-Installation

Todos:

/etc/portsnap.conf (Exclude ports with REFUSE else size is going to be too big)

bodokaiser/README.md

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