FreeBSD on USB

[ruidc]

If anybody has got this to work, it would be good if you could details the steps on the wiki:
http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/FreeBSD_9.x_(9-current)_Plug_Computer_Distribution

If you can only provide a brief outline, i'm happy to guinea-pig it for you and write it up. At the moment i'm stuck at not knowing how to make a sheevaplug-bootable slice/partition. I'm also awaiting further information from FreeBSD mailing list on this.

RuiDC

[ruidc]

After much battling, and courtesy of some recently uploaded patch files, i've got FreeBSD8 working on the plug.
However, upon trying to set up ports using portsnap - which fails consistently but at varying places in the untar, i've now also got errors unzipping the port.tar.gz:

Code:

splug# fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
splug# gunzip ports.tar.gz
gunzip: invalid compressed data--crc error
gunzip: ports.tar.gz: uncompress failed

the same file extracts fine on an i386 machine.
Has anybody got any ideas how to debug this?

[ruidc]

Just thought i'd add: i've tried with other larger .gz files and they extract fine, and i tried two different mirrors for the ports.tar.gz

[ruidc]

awfully alone on this thread... but in case anyone is interested, there is a known arm cache/freebsd problem which is causing this:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2009-December/002082.html