On 12/8/25 01:37, Chris wrote:
I just got a new laptop and tried to boot 13.5,14 and 15
but it hangs at the video -- something about loosing contact
with sc. So I went to get a copy of 16. But download.freebsd.org
doesn't know where it is. All the links to it from FreeBSD.org
return 404.
So where is it?
Thanks! :-)
You can generate your own artifacts from pkgbase packages installed in
an alternate root.
Add the package repository configuration:
FreeBSD-base: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_latest";,
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
To generate src.txz:
# env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/src install FreeBSD-set-src
# tar -acof /var/tmp/src.txz -C /mnt/src usr/src
To generate base.txz:
# env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/base install FreeBSD-set-base
# mtree -deiU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /mnt/base
# mtree -deiU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /mnt/base/usr
# tar -acof /var/tmp/base.txz -C /mnt/base .
The mtree commands may or may not be necessary, but in my case I expect
/usr/obj to exist.
If you want to pretend like this never happened, remove the package
repository configuration and database ($PKG_DBDIR/repos/FreeBSD-base)
once you have the artifacts.
You will still have the packages, which you could exclude from your
normal cache by setting PKG_CACHEDIR in the above pkg commands.
