Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:56:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restaging from scratch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304031753130.26934@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20130404015203.f509f12d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <00a301ce30b0$85c91bd0$915b5370$@thenetnow.com> <20130404015203.f509f12d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:16:35 -0400, Grant Peel wrote: >> If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the >> filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would >> appreciate it! > > Obtain a CD or DVD image, or a USB stick image, and create > the media as explained in The FreeBSD Handbook. Booting > should not be harder than inserting the media into the > appropriate slot of the machine. :-) > > For initializing disks with gpart I found Warren Block's > article very helpful: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > There are also sections covering the topic both in The > FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ, but this article is a > very good "concentrate". Aw shucks; thanks. For a USB bootable FreeBSD, mfsBSD is more capable than the install CD/USB: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/
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