From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 15:25:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9292216A412 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from ns2.twenty4help.se (ns2.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4979143CA2 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:24:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [10.3.101.22] (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by ns2.twenty4help.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kB6FQTQS052614; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:26:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <4576E0C5.402@401.cx> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:24:53 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Franks References: <539c60b90612051903q77aa21d0id5c08b2b2c8d10fd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90612051903q77aa21d0id5c08b2b2c8d10fd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing from a harddisk prepared in a functional system 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, 06 Dec 2006 15:25:04 -0000 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