Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:37:58 -0500 From: Walker <zflyer@gmail.com> To: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from Memory Stick Message-ID: <6293ba970803020837s40797f5eqfe72303e6ea5126b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49540.65.117.48.155.1204406604.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> References: <49540.65.117.48.155.1204406604.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net>
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On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, <jhall@vandaliamo.net> wrote: > I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. FWIW, my cut/paste script for installing 7.0 to a USB flash drive. This is adapted from a post by Ceri Davies (thank you!). ** This assumes the drive is at /dev/da0 and that /dev/md0 is not in use ** # set these; the two mount points should not exist export ISOFILE='/tmp/7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso' export ISOMNT='/a' export USBMNT='/b' # zero the device for better compression when were done (optional) dd bs=10m if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 # mdconfig and mount the media mkdir -m 555 ${ISOMNT} ${USBMNT} mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 0 -f ${ISOFILE} mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 ${ISOMNT} # label and newfs the flash drive fdisk -BI /dev/da0 bsdlabel -B -w da0s1 newfs -U -L FBSDusb /dev/da0s1a mount /dev/da0s1a ${USBMNT} # install the OS cd ${ISOMNT}/*RELEASE/base DESTDIR=${USBMNT} ./install.sh # install the generic kernel cd ${ISOMNT}/*RELEASE/kernels DESTDIR=${USBMNT} ./install.sh generic rmdir ${USBMNT}/boot/kernel mv ${USBMNT}/boot/GENERIC ${USBMNT}/boot/kernel # set boot0 options boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate -t 90 da0 # install a fstab; adjust as needed (like /tmp size) cat >> ${USBMNT}/etc/fstab << EOF # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/ufs/FBSDusb / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 md /tmp mfs rw,-s150M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 md /var/run mfs rw,-s4M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 md /var/log mfs rw,-s16M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,nosuid 0 0 /proc /proc procfs rw,noauto 0 0 /tmp /var/tmp nullfs rw 0 0 EOF # install an rc.conf cat >> ${USBMNT}/etc/rc.conf << EOF ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP" ifconfig_fwe0="NOAUTO" ifconfig_plip0="NOAUTO" sshd_enable="YES" syslogd_flags="-vv" sendmail_enable="NONE" EOF # set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well) chroot ${USBMNT} /bin/sh passwd root tzsetup # clean up cd / umount ${ISOMNT} ${USBMNT} rmdir ${ISOMNT} ${USBMNT} mdconfig -d -u 0 # backup and compress (~ 84MB) (optional) dd bs=10m if=/dev/da0 of=usbflash-freebsd_7.0.img nice bzip2 usbflash-freebsd_7.0.img # done
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