Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:35 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <eugene@zhegan.in> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a bunch of dumb questions about freebsd installing Message-ID: <20110511100035.GB1319@procyon.xvoid.org> In-Reply-To: <4DCA5374.2020306@zhegan.in> References: <4DCA5374.2020306@zhegan.in>
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 03:14:28PM +0600, 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. Try using Options -> Re-scan Devices, helped here with USB CD drive. [...] Yuri
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