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, > > > > Ditch sysinstall and follow this > > > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb- > stick-episode-2 > > > > 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 -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"
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