Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:00:29 -0500 From: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> To: tsuraan <tsuraan@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making a Compact Flash-based installer Message-ID: <2b5f066d0511291000l74cc25eeo851c143ff824ed70@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84fb38e30511290839y525e47fdr@mail.gmail.com> References: <84fb38e30511290839y525e47fdr@mail.gmail.com>
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I've booted off of CF before...and am doing so because the arrays are >2TB, and the BIOS won't boot from it. I just made a boot floppy, then DD'd it to the CF card. If your CF card is >640 (or 700) MB, you could do the same (DD from the CD to CF). Hope that helps. --Brian On 11/29/05, tsuraan <tsuraan@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been using a custom bootable CD for a while to install a > customized build of FreeBSD on servers, but now I have a unit that has > neither a CD-ROM drive nor any molex connectors at all. It does have > a pair of compact flash drives though. So, what I'd like to do is > transfer the data from my bootable CDs to a compact flash card, so I > can install off that instead. What I've tried so far is set up a new > disklabel on the drive (actually, on a file initialized with mdconfig) > that has its -b set to the CDs /boot/boot, and I've copied the > contents of the CD to the cf card. This results in a card that is > bootable, but the boot loader says the card is not ufs (it is), and it > can't find the kernel. The actual commands I'm using (from memory) > are: > > # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dmydrive bs=3D1m count=3D100 > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f cd.iso -u 0 > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom > > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f mydrive -u 1 > # bsdlabel -w -B -b /cdrom/boot/boot md1 > # newfs /dev/md1 > # mount /dev/md1 /mnt > # cp -r /cdrom/* /mnt/ > > # umount /mnt > # umount /cdrom > # mdconfig -d -u 1 > # mdconfig -d -u 0 > > # dd if=3Dmydrive of=3D/dev/ad2 > > So, has anyone done this, and actually had it work? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- _-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_ Brian McCann Systems & Network Administrator, K12USA "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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