Install of 32 bit GhostBSD on VirtualBox

[Jim Comfort]

So, I'm currently working on some BSD installs on VirtualBox 5.2.44, the last of the 32 bit VBox versions. I got FreeBSD 13 up and running, albeit not yet full screen, and frankly, the step-by-step processes were intimidating, even in a hobby sense.

So, I decided to give a 32 bit GhostBSD a try in order to get some practice with pkg/port usage. The version I found was 10.3, as I didn't trust the prereleases listed on SourceForge. It installed swimmingly, but when I ran pkg update fetch, it complained that the folders couldn't be found. Then I tried portsnap update extract and it populated the ports, but wouldn't compile anything. So, I removed that install in VirtualBox and tried the prerelease. It also installed ok, but it installed the installer on itself, so it kept booting to the installation kernel.

Is there a 32 bit version that can still get package updates? One of the last things I tried was a freebsd-update -r 11.0, but it's stuck on loading because of a missing libssl.so.7. While that was going, I found a suggestion to create a GhostBSD.conf file in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos. But I didn't get to that before the kernel upgrade broke.

If I reinstall and try the conf file, will it be worth the effort, or am I swimming upstream? I'm on a Windows 7 32 bit host with 3.25 gigs of usable ram, by the way. 10.3 was running great with 1.4 gigs assigned in VirtualBox, and vram bumped to 256MB.

Thanks in advance,
Jim

[Jim Comfort]

Update: I decided to do a reinstall and tried adding the /pkg/repos/GhostBSD.conf file, but the /test link failed as well as the freeBSD links.

So, I tried one more search with the failure string "FreeBSD:10:i386/quarterly/packagesite.txz", and one of the links was to a debian repository, so I changed the address in the GhostBSD.conf file, and I'm watching a pkg update in terminal as I type.

I'll keep you updated on trying out ports after the pkg updates.

Jim

[RodMyers]

32 bit FreeBSD is not a thing. FreeBSD dropped 32bit from their active development.

As such, there will be no 32bit GhostBSD