From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 16:48:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A67106567D for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:48:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=chris.scott=2519c4aaf@uk.tiscali.com) Received: from mk-mx-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-mx-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.96.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01748FC20 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=chris.scott=2519c4aaf@uk.tiscali.com) X-Trace: 19975739/mk-mx-1-mgmt.mail.uk.tiscali.com/OutBoundMail/$RELAYED/RELAYLIST/212.74.96.57/None/chris.scott@uk.tiscali.com X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 212.74.96.57 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: chris.scott@uk.tiscali.com X-MUA: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-Attachments: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar0EAEtkZEnUSmA5/2dsb2JhbACCRCvNTIV1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,226,1231113600"; d="scan'208,217";a="19975739" Received: from mk-intmx-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (HELO internal.mail.uk.tiscali.com) ([212.74.96.57]) by mk-mx-1-mgmt.mail.uk.tiscali.com with ESMTP; 07 Jan 2009 16:18:33 +0000 Received: from [10.44.0.8] (port=3721 helo=mk-msxbridge.uk.tiscali.intl) by internal.mail.uk.tiscali.com with smtp (Exim 4.67 #1 (FreeBSD)) id 1LKb72-00060U-TQ for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:18:33 +0000 Received: from MK-MSX3-VS3.uk.tiscali.intl ([10.44.0.37]) by mk-msxbridge.uk.tiscali.intl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:18:31 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:18:31 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD USB Install Thread-Index: Aclw45TRdBA/V2vFRCm/N111IGSCtA== From: "Chris Scott" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jan 2009 16:18:31.0863 (UTC) FILETIME=[95211470:01C970E3] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD USB Install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:48:32 -0000 Hi, =20 Ditch sysinstall and follow this =20 http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb- stick-episode-2 =20 glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the situation when you get boot failures when you try to boot off ur usb disk on a machine that has scsi drives (da0 wont be the usb drive) =20 =20