From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 1 21:23:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7361065676 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10DDD8FC23 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 4040 invoked by uid 1006); 1 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-1.4/100.0):. Processed in 0.156216 secs); 01 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.14) by -v with SMTP; 1 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 7899 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 1 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 Received: from 65.117.48.155 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49540.65.117.48.155.1204406604.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:23:24 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: Booting from Memory Stick 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: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:23:31 -0000 I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier way to do this? Thanks, Jay