From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 09:50:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8EA106564A for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 09:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugene@zhegan.in) Received: from elf.hq.norma.perm.ru (mail.norman-vivat.ru [89.250.210.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182568FC22 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 09:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bsdrookie.norma.com. ([IPv6:fd00::7cb]) by elf.hq.norma.perm.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4B9o9jn032334 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 15:50:10 +0600 (YEKST) (envelope-from eugene@zhegan.in) Message-ID: <4DCA5BD1.9080402@zhegan.in> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:50:09 +0600 From: "Eugene M. Zheganin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110325 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4DCA5374.2020306@zhegan.in> In-Reply-To: <4DCA5374.2020306@zhegan.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (elf.hq.norma.perm.ru [IPv6:fd00::30a]); Wed, 11 May 2011 15:50:10 +0600 (YEKST) X-Callback: Sender verified by milter-callback 1.5.14 at elf.hq.norma.perm.ru. X-Callback-Status: relay [] found in white list. X-Callback-Envelope-From: eugene@zhegan.in X-Spam-Status: No hits=0.8 bayes=0.5 testhits RDNS_NONE=0.793 autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on elf.hq.norma.perm.ru Subject: Re: a bunch of dumb questions about freebsd installing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:50:25 -0000 On 11.05.2011 15:14, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > I have an IBM xSeries server, its ip-kvm and different FreeBSD images. > The goal is to perform a remote installation of FreeBSD using server > ip-kvm and USB devices it emulates. > I can perform a non-remote installation in a wariety of ways but this > post is about a remote one. > > 1) Since USB gives an cd(4) device, it's possible to boot from > installation media, but impossible to use it for installation, because > sysinstall wants acd0. Is there any way ? I cannot figure one, except > using NFS or FTP install, which is not quite acceptable. Pure fixit > sheel seems to be missing everything needed, at least I didn't > succeeded at guessing where is mount for cd9660 and ls. > > 2) I downloaded a usb-key media, which is an .img file. This question > does sound silly, and it really makes me look like a newbie and > firsttimer (which, by the way, I am not, I'm installing FreeBSD for > the second time :)) - but - anyway - what is exactly this .img and > what is exactly an USB-key ? * " and what is exactly an USB-HDD ?" ATM I've read that these are different mass-storage classes. > I used to think that, aside from it's internal design, this is the > same think, but it appears that I'm wrong. Google didn't help much. > > 3) Why dd, reading an .img file and writing it to some /dev/da0 (as > it's explained in handbook), which means it's not neither sliced nor > partitioned (it also means that both loaders are presemt in image), > makes a bootable media, and .img itself is not, because giving an .img > file directly to the ip-kvm (and telling server to boot from it) > produces 'No operating system installed' message ? Is there a way to > produce a bootable image from such .img, without actual writing to the > physical media, or at least using md(4) ? > Please ignore two last questions. Seems like FreeBSD tracker is seeding a corrupted memstick image - some of the first megabytes are plain zeroes, and the md5 is not the md5 from ftp. Thanks. Eugene.