Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 18:45:12 +1100 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com> To: "Toby Boudreaux" <toby@barbariangroup.com> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD 6.1 on DL145 G2 Message-ID: <000301c70309$d2bf9b70$3301a8c0@janmxp> References: <000a01c702b3$4418b560$0204a8c0@transactionware.com> <9C8D8F87-D2CE-4BEE-A4F7-FDF793ED241C@barbariangroup.com>
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Hi Tony, > Hi, Jan. Thanks for the reply. > > I think I've found the problem. > > I'm using a USB CD-ROM to install, and it seems to hit a bug with FreeBSD > (#85257). > > I've tried to burn the ISO to my Sandisk Cruzer 2GB thumb drive and boot > from it, but it never seems to boot. It just hangs with a blinking > cursor. > > My server has no internal CD-ROM drive, and floppy support (I have a USB > floppy drive) doesn't seem to work with the amd64 distro. > > I'm kind of stuck now. > > Any ideas on any front? :) You can boot off a USB key, you just need to put something other than an ISO image on it. A UFS filesystem and a bootblock is probably a good idea. However, the easiest thing to do is probably to set up a pxeboot server and boot off an NFS image. For example: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html Regards, Jan.
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