Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:34:39 -0500 From: "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com> To: "Matthias Apitz" <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB Install Message-ID: <2b5f066d0901081134x37f0dfv9f501cfe2e987302@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090107143450.GA12360@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <2b5f066d0901070525l3b928eb8j20fe48c67eeacba6@mail.gmail.com> <20090107151702.48136fb1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090107143450.GA12360@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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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, Polytropon e=
scribi=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 Windo=
ws-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
>
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.
Any other thoughts? I don't understand why this wouldn't work...it's
just another drive...
Thanks for all the input!
--Brian
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