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Subject: RE: Creating FreeBSD/arm bootable SD card for Cubieboards from
 FreeBSD 11.0 image files for Wintel only users.
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:15:28 +0100
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Hi,

I believe I haven't seen an answer to my question yet.

The reason for asking is that in the early to mid '90's I ran an early
version (I'm guessing something like 5.x or 6.x) of FreeBSD for a while on
an old PC, which, although it had a CD-ROM drive, could only boot from its
floppy drive. At the time that wasn't a problem because the FreeBSD project
provided a utility named fdimage, which allowed users to create a bootable
floppy from an image file, boot from that floppy and continue the
installation process from CD-ROM.

To rephrase my question; am I correct in assuming that the FreeBSD release
11.0 SD-card image file contains everything one needs to do a first time
installation of FreeBSD on a cubieboard or cubieboard2? I.e. I do not or do
no longer need to install the SPL loader and U-boot programs on the SD-card,
since they are either an integral part of or not needed when using the image
file.

Regards, Jk.