From owner-freebsd-small Mon Feb 21 8:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from gta.com (gw.gta.com [199.120.225.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C2C37B750 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lab@gta.com) Received: from gta.com (GTA internal mail system) by gta.com id LAA35579; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:25:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:25:22 -0500 (EST) From: Larry Baird Message-Id: <200002211625.LAA35579@gta.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: success with compactflash cards! X-Newsgroups: freebsd.small In-Reply-To: <200002191111.MAA84547@info.iet.unipi.it> Organization: Global Technology Associates, Inc. User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.3-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Any ideas on better ways to produce an image that i can copy to the > flash ? Hmm, I didn't have any problems getting mine to work. I did take a little different approach. I didn't use fdisk to put a partition table of the flash. I dedicated the whole flash to FreeBSD. For installation, I made a PicoBSD floppy that uses DHCP to get its IP address and DNS info. It then did an NFS mount to a FreeBSD box. This mounted area containes all of the FreeBSD pieces parts needed to put a minimal FreeBSD onto my compact flash card. From memory, my installation process is something like: 1) dhclient 2) mount remote:/install /mnt 3) disklabel 4) newfs /dev/fla0a 5) mount /dev/fla0a /a 6) pax -rw /mnt /a 7) umount /a 8) umount /mnt 9) halt -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | HTTP://www.gnatbox.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message