Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:36:02 -0800 From: Jay Chandler <lists@sequestered.net> To: Simeon Nifos <archwndas@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition Message-ID: <477D6352.5090409@sequestered.net> In-Reply-To: <195284.54898.qm@web56501.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <195284.54898.qm@web56501.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Simeon Nifos wrote: > Dear FreeBSD users, > We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is provided it takes time to install. I was wondering if anyone of you ever managed to "write" somehow the isos on a USB hard-disk or USB-flash partition and perform the installation from there. Be careful, I am not saying to install FreeBSD on a USB drive, I am asking if it is possible to transfer somehow the isos on the USB hard-drive or USB-flash drive and then boot from it as if I was booting from the FreeBSD CD iso and perform the installation of FreeBSD on my hard disk. I hope that if this is achieved somehow, the installation will spead up significantly. > > So is it possible? > > Best, > Archwn. > > > > 1. What are you installing off the second CD? 2. A 1 CD install takes all of ten minutes; how much faster were you hoping for it to get? -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: We're out of slots on the server
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