Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:39:52 -0600 From: tsuraan <tsuraan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Making a Compact Flash-based installer Message-ID: <84fb38e30511290839y525e47fdr@mail.gmail.com>
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I've been using a custom bootable CD for a while to install a customized build of FreeBSD on servers, but now I have a unit that has neither a CD-ROM drive nor any molex connectors at all. It does have a pair of compact flash drives though. So, what I'd like to do is transfer the data from my bootable CDs to a compact flash card, so I can install off that instead. What I've tried so far is set up a new disklabel on the drive (actually, on a file initialized with mdconfig) that has its -b set to the CDs /boot/boot, and I've copied the contents of the CD to the cf card. This results in a card that is bootable, but the boot loader says the card is not ufs (it is), and it can't find the kernel. The actual commands I'm using (from memory) are: # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dmydrive bs=3D1m count=3D100 # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f cd.iso -u 0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f mydrive -u 1 # bsdlabel -w -B -b /cdrom/boot/boot md1 # newfs /dev/md1 # mount /dev/md1 /mnt # cp -r /cdrom/* /mnt/ # umount /mnt # umount /cdrom # mdconfig -d -u 1 # mdconfig -d -u 0 # dd if=3Dmydrive of=3D/dev/ad2 So, has anyone done this, and actually had it work?
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