Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:58:27 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com> To: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB Install Message-ID: <49673BE3.8080101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d0901081134x37f0dfv9f501cfe2e987302@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b5f066d0901070525l3b928eb8j20fe48c67eeacba6@mail.gmail.com> <20090107151702.48136fb1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090107143450.GA12360@rebelion.Sisis.de> <2b5f066d0901081134x37f0dfv9f501cfe2e987302@mail.gmail.com>
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Brian McCann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote= : >> El d=EDa Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropo= n escribi=F3: >>> I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the >>> thumb drive (such as it was a new "disk" right from the factory) >>> and let sysinstall put slice and partitions onto it. >> The problem is that 'from the factory' sometimnes they come already Wi= ndows-like >> formated; I've wiped out all with: >> >> # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/da0 bs=3D1m >> >> (double check that /dev/da0 is really the device you want to clean) >> >> matthias >> >=20 > Ok...so I zero'd out two different thumb drives (one 1gb stick, > another a 4gb stick...not that it matters)...and both of them failed > in the same way. I boot the machine with nothing but the CD-Rom drive > and the USB stick. No fancy options or anything in the install > process...just create one slice that takes up the whole drive, then > one parition (da0s1a) mounted as "/"...about as basic as you can get. >=20 > Any other thoughts? I don't understand why this wouldn't work...it's > just another drive... >=20 > Thanks for all the input! > --Brian >=20 You're installing it into a single partition? Just / with everything on i= t? Maybe try the standard installation procedure with a /, swap, tmp, var=20 and user. Let sysinstall do its job and use auto-defaults. Regards.
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