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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 2015 16:06:04 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dd question
Message-ID:  <20150927160604.f1e1c21d.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <5607F676.10307@hiwaay.net>
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:05:52 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 09/27/15 09:00, Polytropon wrote:
> > Maybe the installation media, even though on writable media, is
> > mounted ro? The easiest thing to capture logs is to perform the
> > installation from a "fully writable" live file system, or simply
> > mount a network resource r/w.
> 
> 
> How can I figure that out (mounted ro) ? I have ISO's & img's available 
> on my LAN, can I install from them directly ? If so, how :-) (URL's 
> welcome) ?

Depends on how the boot process is being performed. A look
in /etc/fstab or maybe (customized?) rc.diskless could tell
you more. Basically, it's simple to boot the media, get to
a command line, and look at the "mount -v" output.

Another option woule be to use disklabel and and add a new
partition, for example letter 'd', which ends at the end
of the media (where 'c' usually ends). Note that no partition
can be bigger than 'c' ("the whole thing").




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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