swap -- -- method A dd if=/dev/zero of=./100M.img bs=1M count=100 mdconfig -a ./100M.img # if return /dev/md0 swapon /dev/md0 swapinfo swapoff /dev/md0 mdconfig -d -u 0 -- method B dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1m count=512 chmod 0600 /tmp/swap echo "md99 none swap sw,file=/tmp/swap,late 0 0" >> /etc/fstab swapon -aL Confirm that it has worked: vultr [~]# swapinfo 1. fetch FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img.xz to your VM server 2. rclone to koofr: 3. IE get this file back 4. unzip 5. mobaxterm dd install to usb extrac -- cat FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img.xz | xz -d > FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img make a bootable FreeBSD usb stick (using mobaxterm) -- [cpfong.cpfong-PC] ➤ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name win-mounts 8 0 976762584 sda 8 1 104859648 sda1 C:\ 8 2 436209664 sda2 D:\ 8 3 435686523 sda3 8 16 1007615 sdb 8 17 305096 sdb1 E:\ # cp comment, this is new [cpfong.cpfong-PC] ➤ ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 [cpfong.cpfong-PC] ➤ dd if=./FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M conv=sync 74+1 records in 75+0 records out 314572800 bytes (300.0MB) copied, 98.022000 seconds, 3.1MB/s where to get iso or img? http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/ cat FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso.xz | xz -d > bsd-amd64-disc1.iso @venus-> fstyp ./foo.iso cd9660 @venus-> cat FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz | xz -d > foo.img @venus-> fstyp ./foo.img ufs wget https://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip man unzip unzip -l FD12FLOPPY.zip #list first @venus-> fstyp FLOPPY.img msdosfs @venus-> wget http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core.iso @venus-> fstyp ./slitaz-rolling-core.iso cd9660 mount -- cd9660 msdosfs file _.disk.full 101/usr/obj/nanobsd.full->sudo mdconfig -t vnode -f ./_.disk.full -u 1 101/usr/obj/nanobsd.full->ls /dev/md* /dev/md0 /dev/md1 /dev/md1s1 /dev/md1s1a /dev/md1s2 /dev/md1s3