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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:25:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
To:        freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: success with compactflash cards!
Message-ID:  <200002211625.LAA35579@gta.com>
In-Reply-To: <200002191111.MAA84547@info.iet.unipi.it>

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> Any ideas on better ways to produce an image that i can copy to the
> flash ?
Hmm,  I didn't have any problems getting mine to work.  I did take
a little different approach.  I didn't use fdisk to put a partition
table of the flash.  I dedicated the whole flash to FreeBSD.

For installation,  I made a PicoBSD floppy that uses DHCP to get
its IP address and DNS info.  It then did an NFS mount to a 
FreeBSD box.  This mounted area containes all of the FreeBSD
pieces parts needed to put a minimal FreeBSD onto my compact flash
card.  From memory, my installation process is something like:

  1) dhclient
  2) mount remote:/install /mnt
  3) disklabel
  4) newfs /dev/fla0a
  5) mount /dev/fla0a /a
  6) pax -rw /mnt /a
  7) umount /a
  8) umount /mnt
  9) halt


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Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL
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