From owner-freebsd-small Tue Mar 21 14:22:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from wellington.cnchost.com (wellington.concentric.net [207.155.252.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7061E37BAF4 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:22:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@wrchq.com) Received: from loneranger (ts007d43.por-or.concentric.net [206.173.161.103]) by wellington.cnchost.com id RAA02425; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:22:42 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.8] Message-ID: <002901bf9383$a75a6020$fc8b898b@silver.net> Reply-To: "Tim Dysinger" From: "Tim Dysinger" To: Subject: IOpener SanDisk install Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:20:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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