From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 20:17:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF1616A41F; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:17:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.202.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5021243D45; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:17:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005111420173101400l33nje>; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:17:36 +0000 Message-ID: <4378F0D2.7080908@computer.org> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:17:22 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Calviani References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:17:44 -0000 Marco Calviani wrote: > Hello freebsd-mobile, > i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I > would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose > which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD > newbie. > Could you give me some hints on how to perform this task? What option should > i choose for the bootloader? > I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem. Since I was only using those for experimentation, I never modified my boot loader. My BIOS provides a boot menu for selecting the boot device, of which "external USB device" is an option. I found this cleaner, since when not using those devices I do not have to go through the FreeBSD boot menu. Hints? For my situation... I booted from the CD. When asked to slice and partition my disk... I chose the external USB device. I selected the 'standard boot loader'. Then the rest of the magic is handled by my BIOS. Don't know if that helps you much. > Thanks in advance for the help, > MC > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric