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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:36:00 -0500
From:      "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com>
To:        "Chris Scott" <chris.scott@uk.tiscali.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD USB Install
Message-ID:  <2b5f066d0901081136n257f114akb9ebd628fd6f93a2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D15082B223DE564698EA1AB5E47F732A931238@MK-MSX3-VS3.uk.tiscali.intl>
References:  <D15082B223DE564698EA1AB5E47F732A931238@MK-MSX3-VS3.uk.tiscali.intl>

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Scott <chris.scott@uk.tiscali.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Ditch sysinstall and follow this
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> http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-
> stick-episode-2
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> glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the
> situation when you get boot failures when you try to boot off ur usb
> disk on a machine that has scsi drives (da0 wont be the usb drive)
>
>

Firing that up now...I'll post the results.  I tried this some time
ago and it wouldn't work...but that could have been me doing something
wrong or the PC didn't support booting from USB.

Thanks, I'll let ya know!
--Brian

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