I've been running one Linux distro or another (mostly Debian) for 30 years, so how hard can it be to get a FreeBSD 15.0 ISO or memstick.img on a USB thumb drive for installation? Apparently, for me, very hard. 🤣
I'll figure this out. This is quite the humbling experience. 👍️
UPDATE: Using the dd command worked. I now have the FreeBSD ISO on the thumb drive. Should have tried this earlier.
Yet another UPDATE. ISO is on the thumb drive but still won't boot on the X1 Carbon. I have an older laptop I can try this on. The Boot Menu recognizes the thumb drive but won't boot.
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@cmccullough glad you’re making progress, this can be extremely demotivating.
Feel free to post a screenshot of where it gets stuck. I don’t have a X1 Carbon but maybe I can help.
#FreeBSD hashtag may help too. Discord and IRC are good realtime help channels. https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC https://wiki.freebsd.org/Discord
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_X1_Carbon doesn’t have anything useful but https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=8668 tells me that olivier@ has one running CURRENT.
If you can be more specific I can help connect the dots.