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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:36:00 -0500
From: "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com>
To: "Chris Scott" <chris.scott@uk.tiscali.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB Install
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Scott <chris.scott@uk.tiscali.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Ditch sysinstall and follow this
>
>
>
> http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-
> stick-episode-2
>
>
>
> glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the
> situation when you get boot failures when you try to boot off ur usb
> disk on a machine that has scsi drives (da0 wont be the usb drive)
>
>

Firing that up now...I'll post the results.  I tried this some time
ago and it wouldn't work...but that could have been me doing something
wrong or the PC didn't support booting from USB.

Thanks, I'll let ya know!
--Brian

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