Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:20:23 -0800 From: "Tim Dysinger" <tim@wrchq.com> To: <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: IOpener SanDisk install Message-ID: <002901bf9383$a75a6020$fc8b898b@silver.net>
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I am looking for a tutorial and/or how-tos for installing FreeBSD 4 on a 16M SanDisk IDE device. With Linux you would just fdisk, mke2fs, cp the minimal root and kernel to the SanDisk and run lilo and Bango! done... However, I don't want to put that smelly OS on my nice fresh IOpener. I can compile a custom FreeBSD kernel and cvsup my sources for a good-ol' make world, but I am ignorant when it comes to manipulating FreeBSD "slices", labels and boot record settings. You could just cp the root and kernel files over but, I imagine, there is alot more involved in creating a bootable disk. Could someone outline the steps for me? -Tim P.S. - Better yet, could it be possible to just dump the 2.88M boot.flp image to the IOpener's SanDisk and start a FreeBSD install over the parallel port from there? Can you use NFS as /usr during an installation by configuring your ethernet device and using the console to mount it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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