FreeBSD Setup

FreeBSD is one of the most popular branches of the BSD project, and one of the oldest open-source branches. It emphasizes security through design and offers a featureful packaging toolchain.


Installation

Grab an image from the official repositories. You likely will want either the -memstick.img or the mini-memstick.img images. The former is larger, the latter requires an internet conection during installation.

While ARM's aarch64 (a.k.a. armv8) is not a Tier 1 supported platform, pre-built images are available for all major versions of the Raspberry Pi. Just keep in mind that it isn't possible to upgrade the release in-place.

dd the image onto your device, and the rest will explain itself.


Administration

Software Installation

Official repositories are managed with the pkg package manager. To update installed packages, use pkg update && pkg upgrade. To add a package such as HAProxy, use pkg install haproxy.


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