How many people run BSD on RPi...

[bsd-keith]

As the title, I'm interested in learning how many people run BSD, (& which flavour), on RPi SBC.

(I've tried a few times & failed.)

Did you find it difficult to make them work?

[berni51]

Better a late than no answer:
Yes, I'm running OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD on RPi4B, NetBSD on RPi5 and OpenBSD on BananaPi M5.
The beginning sometimes was a little bit tricky, and I had to search and read a while. But since more than 3 years the systems run fine and rock stable.

And, important: It was very interesting to get it to work.

Regards & a happy new year
Berni

[bsd-keith]

That's good to know it works OK, I will have to give it another try...

Happy New Year!

[TheTKS]

On RPi4. It took some reading, but I wouldn’t say it was difficult to install. I’m not sure I could find today what I read then to help. I installed a few years ago, and anyway, I have just been upgrading with sysupgrade rather than reinstalling, and a few things have changed since, so you would have to search for current instructions.

[izder456]

I run NetBSD 10.1 on my 2 RPi v2's (set that up today)
I also run OpenBSD on my 4GB model RPi 400 over a USB SATA enclosure and pftf's UEFI firmware.
Both OpenBSD and NetBSD work pretty well on these machines, and were pretty straightforward to set up. I *do* have a RPi3b (not plus), that I wanted to put OpenBSD on, but couldn't for the life of me get the partitioning to work. Something like: Invalid argument mounting errors for the default partitioning, both on SD Card and USB SATA Enclosure. Ended up putting the RPi3b back in the bin for later projects.

[yeti]

Originally Posted by izder456

I run NetBSD 10.1 on my 2 RPi v2's (set that up today)

Drop us some lines when you have applied some updates and still are not cursing.