Building FreeBSD for BeagleBone Black
What you’ll need: • BeagleBone Black. • 5v power supply or Mini-USB cable. • Micro-SDHC card 4GB or larger. • FTDI cable Steps: 1) Download current FreeBSD image for BBB to working directory wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE-20180215-r329338.img.xz 2) Uncompress the img.xz file and burn it to the sd card xzcat FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE-20180215-r329338.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb Note that you might need admin rights for above command. Also, verify that your sd card is at /dev/sdb change it if it's other then sdb. In caes of unavailability of xzcat command, just install it by installing xz utils.