Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:31:31 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: Simeon Nifos <archwndas@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition Message-ID: <477D7053.5030606@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <477D6352.5090409@sequestered.net> References: <195284.54898.qm@web56501.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <477D6352.5090409@sequestered.net>
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Jay Chandler wrote: > 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? > 3. Someone posted this link the other day to make a DVD iso... http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html Chris
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