From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 10:26:52 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 D6569106564A for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 10:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160B18FC0C for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 10:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so431097bwz.13 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 03:26:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=+LYFBwLnQPr0amN5qkAJ1e7FDLyDAYxx7QGphlc1qPI=; b=qzlRobfFjt5SMI3X3hn09RhPPu9VVX3DMmm+m4H60N47dKJ2VPRmRGWrpvPVY/4EFc DjEXkgwwweEDEAz2Z9yISvgTlBVAqrG5a0kn6FMounrxZO2ONayeh1d1l8G/GqxwM1b3 X33foyVq5zbRBox+xH742uXnI8F8ta5NTq5ho= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=aViH0CsWs/UGDsPjalRbFDa1lHmZSczpUYNzbY1czO2HtpzhYvSp/fmZlE7DDcDEmk CAawuwFTGM0nKqpGP4YYiJ7m6rY3LKWQxT6wxKTNSQOhS4x3gv7nC81IrIHEFfRFfoUr 7FY5sfhCVZiMUeM7HEzLzAHj/20ZFO5jzKROs= Received: by 10.204.20.66 with SMTP id e2mr5733378bkb.141.1305108039606; Wed, 11 May 2011 03:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from procyon.xvoid.org ([213.132.76.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm4836728bkv.12.2011.05.11.03.00.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 May 2011 03:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from procyon.xvoid.org (yuri@procyon.xvoid.org [IPv6:::1]) by procyon.xvoid.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4BA0ZxC014865; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:35 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by procyon.xvoid.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p4BA0ZBW014864; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:35 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: procyon.xvoid.org: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:35 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" Message-ID: <20110511100035.GB1319@procyon.xvoid.org> References: <4DCA5374.2020306@zhegan.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DCA5374.2020306@zhegan.in> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 10:26:52 -0000 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