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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:55:18 +0200
From:      Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Transfer CD image to USB memory stick?
Message-ID:  <ygfskx34t8p.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk>
In-Reply-To: <4817FE3F.8030701@intersonic.se> (Per olof Ljungmark's message of "Wed\, 30 Apr 2008 07\:06\:07 %2B0200")
References:  <4817FE3F.8030701@intersonic.se>

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Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> writes:

> Could someone please point me to information how to achieve this? Have
> new hardware that lacks CD/floppy and want to install FreBSD...

I have a script that makes a disk image from a bootonly FreeBSD
install image.

I usually install grub on the USB memory stick and use memdisk from
the syslinux package to load the image. A sample menu entry for grub
is included in the script.

http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/iso2diskimage.pl

-- 
Christian Laursen



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