From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 18:00:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C7216A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:00:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2597043D5F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:00:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so1510816nzo for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:00:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sMTMzZCgQFBTUnDbhpHwi3giKjoUXZn3h9PYKeiRTltGvbOQYshlyPfBVHOJpyKGDFH5E1aDFB3KDZAIg3HOObJTNgq7GO+le/WF4smEprjdnqFWSi5rGkz2J/QT/3ac0tnEMIph3QgLNHAmXK8j0Dq8R3FVXs9/eu1wb0iFeSE= Received: by 10.37.22.75 with SMTP id z75mr4597407nzi; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.48.19 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:00:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2b5f066d0511291000l74cc25eeo851c143ff824ed70@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:00:29 -0500 From: Brian McCann To: tsuraan , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <84fb38e30511290839y525e47fdr@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <84fb38e30511290839y525e47fdr@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Making a Compact Flash-based installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:00:30 -0000 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 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"