Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:48:23 -1000 From: William Bierman <wbierman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: creating boot cd to install a ghost image Message-ID: <f994b88004091617487e4ccc93@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Howdy. I am attempting to create a FreeBSD cluster. My first step is to come up with a bootable CD (which I have done) that will run a script to create one giant partition (for simplicity, since not all hard drives are the same size), run newfs on it, mount it, and copy the desired tree to it. I then unmount it and run boot0cfg -B -s 1 ad0 on it. When I attempt to boot, it spits out: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 When I hit F1, it spits out that message again. Eventually the screen is full of them. I have heard a rumor that bsdlabel will finish the job for me, but I am having some issues. Every page on the web I have found has told me that I need to run something simple, such as: bsdlabel -w -B ad0 When I do that, I get the error: bsdlabel: Geom not specified Which is weird, since I see no switch defined in the manpage to specify disk geometry. Can anyone shed some light on this? I am concerned that I may creating the partition incorrectly, but that is only a guess. Best Regards, Bill
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f994b88004091617487e4ccc93>