My Raspberry Pi 3 USB ports are not working, they suddenly stopped functioning and I don't know why.
Now I want to install OpenBSD/FreeBSD but, as my USB ports are damaged or not working, I want to install them by Headless installation (without attaching a keyboard or HDMI display).
Is there any way to do a headless installation of OpenBSD/FreeBSD via ssh server? Is it enabled by default?
RPi3 support for OpenBSD is incomplete. Not even old Beagle has USB code, after 5 years. Expect the same with PI3.
Use FreeBSD flashed images you can find here. Many things work for RPi3. NetBSD works 99% IIRC. See here.
Unless you need something specifically *BSD, Raspbian is better.
On the FreeBSD images, SSHD is enabled on first boot, so you can immediately login and resize fs, add packages etc. Good luck with that.
For FreeBSD it is very straight forward. sshd is enabled by default, so the hardest part of the whole process will be finding the IP address of the Pi. Pinging the broadcast address and then running arp -a was how I did it.
After that do:
ssh freebsd@<the IP address you found>
then login with the password of freebsd.
I would imagine that it would be pretty much the same for OpenBSD.
