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Building FreeBSD-9.2 for Soekris using Crochet-BSD
Crochet-BSD is a github project which supports building FreeBSD disk images for various platforms such a RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard and others. I had a Soekris 4501 laying around, so I decided to extend Crochet to build images for it. So, firstly, I needed a kernel. Building the kernel config for Soekris is explained pretty well here….
Creating a custom FreeBSD build for Raspberry Pi
The default FreeBSD kernel for Raspberry Pi can be found here in the FreeBSD source browser. It’s everything you need to boot FreeBSD on a Pi, and includes GPIO support. However, the Pi is a nice small computer, so it’s likely that you’ll want it to include options such as Wifi, and pf. In my…
FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 SOEKRIS Image
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Securing FreeBSD with Ansible
My preferred server OS is FreeBSD. Each time I install it, I have to go through numerous steps to secure it. So, to avoid that effort, and to make sure I get it right each time, I’ve created an Ansible playbook to automate the entire process. You can learn about it here. Some of the…
Spelunking the Crochet-FreeBSD Wandboard boot
Some time ago I was part of the effort to add Wandboard support to Crochet-FreeBSD. I wrote a blog posting about it here. An explanation of how Crochet-FreeBSD boots the Wandboard is below: The Wandboard uses U-Boot as its initial boot-loader. A number of patches to the U-Boot source are required, and you…
Configuring the FreeBSD automounter
I have a number of disks in my FreeBSD box which exist only as backups of data. I prefer that they not be mounted all the time, but instead mounted on use. They are 2x internal SATA disks and an external USB3 disk. This blog post explains how they are set up to auto-mount….