Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:21:07 -0400 From: Gregory T Helton <gt@fallendusk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install from a USB Pen Message-ID: <20090713092107.7b8607df@elune.fallendusk.org> In-Reply-To: <a5f2f3950907130502x729f4dfbq23110234fbab4095@mail.gmail.com> References: <a5f2f3950907130502x729f4dfbq23110234fbab4095@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:02:54 +0100 Mark Wallbank <mrkwllbnk@googlemail.com> wrote: > OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep > hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on > google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to > create the image or do a net (pxe) install from another NIX serverbut > it does seem to be a bit over the top. Does any body know of an easy > way to create a bootable USB install media for 7.2 using either linux > or vista (or using an option from the install dvd). I have tried some > of the tricks from openBSD and linux to no avail. > Any help appreciated... > Cheers > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I am assuming that you don't have access to a freebsd machine to build the image? There's official usb images for 8.0-BETA1. I have (unofficial) iso->img converted 7.2-RELEASE-bootonly for i386/amd64. I've used this method before to build a 8.0-CURRENT snapshot img's, before -BETA1, and it works. http://www.fallendusk.org/freebsd/img/7.2-RELEASE/ Disclaimer: I've not tested these img's at all, so use at your own risk. :) You can copy to a flashdrive using dd on any *nix platform, and I believe there's a ported version of dd for Windows aswell. I can share the source for the iso->img convert script if you, or anyone else, would like. I don't know the original author as it wasn't in the script.
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