Welcome to NanoBSD, ​FreeBSD default method for installing ​FreeBSD on embedded devices, like ​Soekris and others. The manual described below is (loosely) based on the Concept plan of Tim Baas, but also consists of many hints by ​official 'Introduction to NanoBSD' manual

Have to remember links

• ​http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/nanobsd/soekris_4x26/make.soekris_4x26.conf
• ​http://www.paeps.cx/weblog/2005/Jul/10

Procedure

Please note to find the supporting files in the subdirectory nanobsd

Build environment

Get yourself a fresh freebsd host with ports and subversion installed

1. Run the basic CD installer of 7.x. Manual tested with 7.1-RELEASE (real basic install will fit our needs). Installing FreeBSD is not scope of the document, take a look into ​the FreeBSD handbook Chapter 2 Installing FreeBSD if you do not know the details.
2. get latest sources csup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.nl.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
3. install subversion pkg_add -r subversion
4. fetch ports portsnap fetch extract
5. OPTIONAL, every developer has his own preferences, these are mine ;-) pkg_add -r vim-lite sudo

Introduction

First download the environment and run initial build

$ setenv R /root/nanobsd
$ svn checkout http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/iris/nanobsd $R
$ cd $R
$ sh /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/nanobsd.sh -c $R/cfg/nanobsd.wleiden

Even the little script got flags, check the output of sh /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/nanobsd.sh -h

-b suppress builds (both kernel and world)
-k suppress buildkernel
-w suppress buildworld
-c specify config file

XXX: TODO describe procedure

WL specific

stumber, hidden gem maybe /usr/src/tools/tools/net80211/stumber

Hints

• You could always decide to install your FreeBSD base instance into a ​virtual envirionment
• cvsup.nl.freebsd.org is the local dutch cvsup mirror, replace nl with your proper country code
• It seems tempting to follow /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile instead of /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile please DO NOT unless your like big trouble as stable-supfile is the stable DEVELOPMENT branch e.g. upcoming stable.

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