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For questions related to installing and using FreeBSD on the Pi.

FreeBSD is a general purpose, Unix-like operating system widely used for network infrastructure and embedded systems over the past several decades. FreeBSD derives from the pioneering work done by the Computer Science Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1980s that resulted in the Berkeley Software Distributions (2BSD and 4BSD).

For more information about using FreeBSD on the Pi, see the FreeBSD wiki.

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FreeBSD - easiest way to install on my RPi?

Raspberry Pi support has been merged into FreeBSD-CURRENT a few months ago. However the latest installation instructions still involve a lengthy process of cross-compiling the entire OS on another machine to create an installation image. I realise…
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FreeBSD and Raspberry Pi 3

Can I run FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 3? I also have a Raspberry Pi 1 B+ has issues booting FreeBSD: It ends up in a "mountroot" prompt.
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How do I put UNIX on the Pi?

I am Kris Kay. I am a student at a local technical school and next year they will be introducing the Pi as a tool to use with UNIX. My task is to install and run UNIX on the device. What is the best way for me to do this? I know this question is…
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Can I run FreeBSD on my Pi?

There are a number of questions asking about installing/running FreeBSD on the Pi – it looks like there are a lot of problems. Is FreeBSD runnable on the Pi? How can I get started?
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SSH logins (non-root) on new install of FreeBSD

I'm setting up FreeBSD (12 Current) on a 512 MB Pi 1 - I've got it up and running and I have a login prompt on the monitor, but there aren't any wired keyboards in this part of the world... So, I figured I'd try connecting via ssh. I can connect…
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FreeBSD, GPIO, physical memory adresses

First my Assignment: I'm a beginner with BSD and low level peripherals like GPIO etc. and I need to toggle Raspberry GPIO Pins from a C programm on BSD. I am Using this BSD Image i took from here: FreeBSD - easiest way to install on my RPi? and try…
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Headless Installation of OpenBSD?

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…
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RPi Model B 512 MB--FreeBSD--text running off screen

I am having a problem with FreeBSD, wherein I cannot get the text to be constrained within the area of a TV (composite). I have been using framebuffer_height and framebuffer_width in /boot/msdos/config.txt to get the right size but overscan_left,…
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FreeBSD: Shared object "libarchive.so.6" not found, required by "pkg"

I installed FreeBSD into Raspberry pi 3, but after downloading and extracting ports tree from portsnap. Now, I also installed pkg (ports-management) binary for binary installation. But, after installation of pkg i tried lots of others binary…
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No shutodown on reboot in Freebsd12, Rasp3

I have installed Freebsd12 on a sd card and put it in a Raspberry3. The image I am using is the first one on this page I have this problem, when I give the #> reboot command services go down but the machine does not do the power-down/power-up…
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After installing and customised how to make an distribution image (size of only data)

I just installed FreeBSD 11 on a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B, the raw image is less than 1GB after installing some packages and customising the setup I would like to create an image the one I could share and be installed no matter the size of the SD…
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RPi2B redlights when trying to boot into RaspBSD

I'm trying to get my Raspberry Pi 2 B to boot using RaspBSD. I had previously, and still can, boot into the latest Raspbian image. After downloading and decompressing the RPi2 image from the RaspBSD site, I used sudo dd…
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GPS Add-on GPIO Board Prevents Pi From Booting

I'm using the following set up to build an NTP Server: Raspberry Pi B+ Raspberry PI GPS Add-on FreeBSD 10.1 built with CrochetBSD I am able to boot my Pi without the GPS Add-on. When I plug in the GPS Add-on into the GPIO connector, my Pi fails…
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enable ssh on pi4 FreeBSD

I installed FreeBSD on my pi4 and now i am trying to setup ssh so i can ssh into it and run c files via my computer on the LAN. When i type in 'ifconfig' i get a lot of info but the important information is the IP i need, which does not appear to be…
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Install 64bits os on Raspberry Pi 4

I'm not able to run 64-bit OS on my Raspberry Pi 4. If I do these steps (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md) with a 32bit OS it works fine, but if I use Ubuntu or FreeBSD then it doesn't boot. The screen…
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