From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jul 18 11: 6:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1767F37B400 for <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B848543E70 for <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from huchen@mira-sjcd-4.cisco.com) Received: from mira-sjcd-4.cisco.com (IDENT:mirapoint@mira-sjcd-4.cisco.com [171.69.43.47]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6II6oM2028245; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squish.cisco.com (squish.cisco.com [171.69.26.132]) by mira-sjcd-4.cisco.com (Mirapoint) with SMTP id AED76402; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207181805.AED76402@mira-sjcd-4.cisco.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Huei-Ping Chen <huchen@cisco.com> Reply-To: Huei-Ping Chen <huchen@cisco.com> Subject: Re: FlashBSD :-) To: huchen@cisco.com, mk@neon1.net Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: vke0K5uUg7fkY1N7oUlzYQ== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.1 CDE Version 1.2.1 SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-small.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-small> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-small> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Manuel, cool !! great information in your guide, -- Ping > Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org > User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:44:06 +0200 > Subject: Re: FlashBSD :-) > From: Manuel Kasper <mk@neon1.net> > To: Huei-Ping Chen <huchen@cisco.com> > Cc: FreeBSD-small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > List-ID: <freebsd-small.FreeBSD.ORG> > List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) > List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) > List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-small> > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-small> > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > do you happen to have some information or URLs on how to install FreeBSD > > from a desktop to the compact flash ? > > > > I am assuming you would need a compact flash reader and probably use the > > "dd" command to write it ? > > You may want to take a look at my guide - chapters 11 and 12 describe a > method that uses the vn device to generate a flat binary image that can then > be transferred in one step using dd. Maybe you can extract some ideas from > these chapters even if you plan to do it differently. :) > > If you use a PCMCIA flash card reader in a notebook (with pccardd enabled), > the flash card will show up like just another IDE hard disk (ad[n]). > > The guide is at: > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > > Greets, > > Manuel > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message