Meant to do this earlier but got tangled up a little bit.
Code:
How To: Terminus font in console
Tested on FreeBSD10...
0. assumes root access at a physical console throughout
1. download the *compiled* console-terminus font .deb archive
from the url below (link working as of 7/5/2015)...
https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/console-terminus/download
2. move .deb archive to /tmp...
mv console-terminus_4.30-2_all.deb /tmp/ && cd /tmp
3. extract deb archive using one of the two methods shown next...
ar p /tmp/console-terminus_4.30-2_all.deb data.tar.gz | tar -xzf -
ar vx /tmp/*.deb && tar -xzf /tmp/data.tar.gz
4. read README.Debian.gz to determine font for your locale...
zless /tmp/usr/share/doc/console-terminus/README.Debian.gz
5. extract gzipped font (I selected the english font)...
gunzip -c /tmp/usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-Terminus16.psf.gz > /tmp/Lat15-Terminus16.psf
6. strip psf header/unicode-map trailer (8x16x256 only?)...
dd if=Lat15-Terminus16.psf of=terminus-latin-8x16.fnt bs=1 count=4096 skip=4
7. test font...
vidcontrol -f /tmp/terminus-latin-8x16.fnt && echo success
8. move font to syscons font directory...
mv /tmp/terminus-latin-8x16.fnt /usr/share/syscons/fonts/
9. load font upon every boot (add construct to /etc/rc.conf)...
font8x16="terminus-latin-8x16"
10. enjoy