Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:24:53 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing from a harddisk prepared in a functional system Message-ID: <4576E0C5.402@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90612051903q77aa21d0id5c08b2b2c8d10fd@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90612051903q77aa21d0id5c08b2b2c8d10fd@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve Franks wrote: > How does one make a 'boot' disk - be it cdrom, harddrive or flash > (presuming your bios will boot from all those devices, of course)? > > 1.The handbook specifies you need to minimally copy the /bin folder to > the destination. > 2. Obviously you want a valid ufs2 partition. > 3. I've repeatedly tried setting the 'bootable' option in fdisk, and > the 'A' appears next to the slice, but everytime I reboot it > dissappears, even after a 'W' command, so I'm going to try to get this > to go without using sysinstall by a manual copy, if I can. > 4. Windows partitions need some special files, i.e. ntldr, at a > special location on the boot partiton - equivalent in bsd? Or does the > loader just look for /bin and load the kernel from there? > 5. bootloader seems to work when I put the disk in the new computer - > get F1 and F2, but nothing else happens. > > Basically I'm trying to make an 'image' - put a fresh disk in my > working system, format it, make it boot, at least to sysinstall, so I > can put it in my other system that has no floppy or cdrom to install > from, and get things rolling over the network card. I was thinking I > could just do this with a single partition on the target disk, like > the install cdrom's do. I want to turn a harddisk into an install > cdrom, and then have it install to itself, a dangerous idea, no doubt, > but it appears that it could work, I just can't get the new disk to > boot in the new system. > > Thanks, > Steve > Is there a reason why you can't finish the installation on your working system, and then move the disk to the new machine and just boot your newly installed system? -- R
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