JustineSmithies,
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I'm attempting to install onto my test laptop although it failed last time with some error about the base package after downloading them all. I'm going to write the actual error down this time if it fails. 🙃

justdude,
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@JustineSmithies The rpi-imager or raspberry imager is a perfect tool for USB sticks, choose a custom image and there you go.
never failed me like Unetbootin or the other variants.I recently used Freebsd 13.2 that worked great

JustineSmithies,
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Said error ?? Ive got the current 15 boot only iso.

JustineSmithies,
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Think I'll try another USB stick.

Tionisla,
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@JustineSmithies Hmmh, ventoy or dd'ing on directly on usb stick? I think using ventoy doesn't work...

JustineSmithies,
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@Tionisla I'm dd'ing

Tionisla,
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@JustineSmithies something likes this?

dd if=freebsd-xx.y.img of=/dev/USBDEVICE bs=1M conv=sync

JustineSmithies,
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@Tionisla Ok I did:

dd bs=4M if=FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20231019-fb7140b1f928-266042-bootonly.iso of=/dev/sda conv=fdatasync

Tionisla,
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@JustineSmithies hmm, iirc I used the memstick variant

JustineSmithies,
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@Tionisla Downloading memstick variants for 13 and 15 to see if that resolves things. Thanks for the headsup.

Tionisla,
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@JustineSmithies I think 14-rc4 is also safe to try... It'll become RELEASE in a couple of days

grahamperrin,
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@JustineSmithies that would have been an older snapshot (19th October). The lists of files at some download pages can be a bewildering mix, for anyone who's not familiar with the content of each area.

Still, I'm surprised by the checksum failures. Maybe a quirk.

Skeybu,

@JustineSmithies why not do a net install? Take the “small” boot only stick and download the packages off internet during the installation

JustineSmithies,
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@Skeybu Think I may try that thanks.

thindil,

@JustineSmithies 15? Iirc, it is very experimental version, like Linux directly from repository. 😉 I started with the stable version, currently 13. 14 is planned to release in the next week.

JustineSmithies,
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@thindil I might try that yet if this fails.

grahamperrin,
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@JustineSmithies not reproducible here with FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20231102-559a218c9b25-266202-bootonly.iso in VirtualBox

grahamperrin,
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@JustineSmithies incidentally, the three that are preset normally suffice.

If you truly need things for debugging, you can add those at a later date.

#FreeBSD

JustineSmithies,
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@grahamperrin Thanks

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