Nomad BSD 1.1 based on FreeBSD, You can live system for USB flash drives


NomadBSD is a 64bit live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD®. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery.

Changes since 1.0.1


  • Base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE
  • Basic support for MacBooks has been added
  • A script for loading the matching DRM driver from graphics/drm-stable-kmod for Radeon GPUs has been added. Together with x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu more recent AMD Radeon chipsets should now work out of the box.
  • For all Intel GPUs the new i915kms from graphics/drm-stable-kmod is now used.
  • x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa have been added as fallback drivers.
  • Autodetection of the VirtualBox pseudo GPU has been added.
  • Fallback configuration of SCFB
  • EFI booting has been fixed.
  • Support for modern Intel GPUs has been added.
  • Support for installing packages has been added.
  • Improved setup menu.
  • More software packages:
  • benchmarks/bonnie++
  • DSBDisplaySettings
  • DSBExec
  • DSBSu
  • mail/thunderbird
  • net/mosh
  • ports-mgmt/octopkg
  • print/qpdfview
  • security/nmap
  • sysutils/ddrescue
  • sysutils/fusefs-hfsfuse
  • sysutils/fusefs-sshfs
  • sysutils/sleuthkit
  • www/lynx
  • x11-wm/compton
  • x11/xev
  • x11/xterm




Download Image Nomad BSD 1.1

How to Writing the image to a USB memory stick ?

Writing the image to a USB memory stick

FreeBSD
# lzma -d nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi.lzma
# dd if=nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi of=/dev/daX bs=1M conv=sync

OpenBSD
# lzma -d nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi.lzma
# dd if=nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m conv=sync

NetBSD
# lzma -d nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi.lzma
# dd if=nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi of=/dev/rsdXd bs=1m conv=sync

DragonFly BSD
# lzma -d nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi.lzma
# dd if=nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi of=/dev/sdX bs=1m conv=sync

Mac OS X
# lzma -d nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi.lzma
# dd if=nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m conv=sync

Linux
# lzma -d nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi.lzma
# dd bs=1M if=nomadbsd-x.y.z.efi of=/dev/sdX conv=fsync


Double check to make sure to replace X with the correct unit number! 

Windows

You can uncompress the image using 7-Zip. To write the image to your USB stick, you can use Win32 Disk Imager