From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 18:25:04 2010 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 72A951065675 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz) Received: from smtprelay-h32.telenor.se (smtprelay-h32.telenor.se [213.150.131.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28DEF8FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-h32.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF22E8CDD for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:25:02 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.226.59.55] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhA5ABZackxV4js3PGdsb2JhbACDF50YDAEBAQE1Las2khSBIoMicwSJEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,258,1280700000"; d="scan'208";a="121572326" Received: from c-373be255.107-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO gatekeeper.pp.dyndns.biz) ([85.226.59.55]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 23 Aug 2010 20:25:02 +0200 Received: from [192.168.69.67] (phobos [192.168.69.67]) by gatekeeper.pp.dyndns.biz (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7NIP0mg006654; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:25:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz) Message-ID: <4C72BCFC.1030106@pp.dyndns.biz> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:25:00 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TW9yZ2FuIFdlc3N0csO2bQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100727 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Friedemann Becker References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1 memstick installation 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: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:25:04 -0000 On 2010-08-23 19:34, Friedemann Becker wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. > > I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home > that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on > musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem > for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other > stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one > day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation > image) on usb-stick. > Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, > or any hacked versions of it? > And how do turn this stick in a running system? > Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how > to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero > doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) > > Thanks in advance > Check my old message on how to do this in FreeBSD 7.2. The same instructions should work for 8.1 too, just change the version references. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/201928.html /Morgan