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Building bootable FreeBSD Images: Crochet-FreeBSD

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Building bootable FreeBSD Images      Crochet is a tool for building bootable FreeBSD images. This tool was formerly known as “freebsd-beaglebone” or “beaglebsd” as the original work was done for BeagleBone. But it now supports more boards and should easily extend to support many more. Supported Platforms Alix BananaPi BananaPi BPI-M3 BeagleBone Chromebook Snow Cubieboard OrangePi PandaBoard Pine64 RaspberryPi and RaspberryPi 2 Soekris generic x86 systems. Wandboard Versatile PB VMWare ZedBoard How to Build a Disk Image      The crochet.sh script can build a complete bootable FreeBSD image ready to be copied to a suitable device (e.g., SDHC card, Compact Flash card, disk drive, etc.). The script runs on FreeBSD-CURRENT, though some people have reported success running it on FreeBSD 9-STABLE. Using the script to build an image consists of a few steps: READ board/board-name/READMEThe board-specific directories each have a README with various details about run...