SOEKRIS image for FreeBSD-11

I got interested in building my own wireless point after seeing some of the wireless firmware issues like this.  Besides, I’ve always been interested in embedded devices and FreeBSD. So, the first step was a device.  I chose to use a Wandboard.  I’m a committer to Crochet-FreeBSD, so I built out the device support for…

Image is here.    Boot log is here.

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….

Building a FreeBSD kernel for Beaglebone is not terribly difficult.  Firstly, you need the FreeBSD-Current sources: svn co http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head /src/FreeBSD/ Next, build the cross-development tools for FreeBSD: cd /src/FreeBSD/head make XDEV=arm XDEV_ARCH=armv6 xdev Then get Crochet-FreeBSD.  This is by far the easiest way to build a FreeBSD kernel for Beaglebone git clone git://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd.git Once you…

If you happen to have had an Apple][, you might be interested in retrieving your data from old DOS 3.3 floppies.  Or maybe you’re just interested in retrocomputing and downloaded some floppies at Apple2Online.  In my case, I had an ulterior motive.  I’ve been learning about FreeBSD device drivers and was wondering how difficult it…

I often have a need for a fresh FreeBSD install, to host a server, or perhaps just experiment with. My usual solution is FreeBSD jails. However, I’ve recently gotten interested in Ansible and AWS. There are quite a few advantages to installing infra with AWS, however the one I’m most interested in is automating the…