Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:22:41 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> Subject: Re: USB Install Method Message-ID: <200805151822.43236.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <482B96F5.8030800@miralink.com> References: <482B96F5.8030800@miralink.com>
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--nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 15 May 2008, Sean Bruno wrote: > Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 7 install method for those of > us without CD/DVD Rom drives? > > The easiest way for me would be to boot off of a USB stick and then > install across the network, but I'm open to suggestions. The simplest way would be to get a USB CDROM drive. Note that it is likely you will need a version of FreeBSD released after=20 this commit.. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S?rev= =3D1.46 Unfortunately as of today it will only be in a -current snapshot :( eg ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200805 You might be lucky and it will work but if not you will find the loader=20 crashes (eg spins really fast writing register dumps to the screen..) It is fairly straight forward to create a USB key with FreeBSD on it but=20 it requires a FreeBSD system to create it.. http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stic= k-episode-2 (I haven't actually tried this but it looks OK - I have done it with=20 =46reesBIE though) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIK/nb5ZPcIHs/zowRAjNCAJ9TP0j7Ea5iVkvG6ZW3JsWCMbCalgCfeSuh hdb2HCxYZnQrR3H7mzsQu9A= =JeGl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7--
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