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08.07.2010 09:53, Jeremy Chadwick ΞΑΠΙΣΑΧ(ΜΑ):
> Then don't modify loader.conf.  Instead, once the "Welcome to FreeBSD!"
> portion of loader appears, press "6" to shell to the loader prompt
> and type:
>
> set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0"
> boot
>    
Yes, that works... It just should not be necessary. Red Hat's 
"kickstart" does not require one to extract CD-images to fiddle with a 
couple of lines, and FreeBSD comes tantalizingly close to offer the same 
functionality. Just not quite :-(

    -mi