mfsBSD

Copyright (c) 2019 Martin Matuska

Version 2.4

Description

This is a set of scripts that generates a minimal installation of FreeBSD in a bootable image, ISO file or raw boot archives, e.g., .tar.gz files. The minimal installation gets completely loaded into memory using the memory disk (aka md`) subsystem.

The image may be written directly on to any bootable block device, e.g., /dev/da0, etc, or a bootable partition/slice, e.g., /dev/ada0p1.

Supported File Formats

A variety of output file formats are supported by mfsbsd:

• General purpose disk images.
  • This is the ideal use case for SD cards, USB keys, etc.
• GCE compatible tar file artifacts.
• ISO images.
• Basic tar, e.g., .tar.gz, files.

The Build Examples section provides some examples for how one can build the supported mfsbsd file formats.

Build-time requirements

• FreeBSD 11 or higher installed.
  • This was tested on i386, amd64 and arm64
• base.txz and kernel.txz from a FreeBSD 11 or higher distribution, or a FreeBSD 11 based or newer FreeBSD source tree.

Runtime requirements

• A minimum of 512MB system memory

Other information

See BUILD and INSTALL for building and installation instructions.

Project homepage: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk

This project was inspired by the depenguinator project.