From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 13:21:16 2009 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 91C85106564A for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:21:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gt@fallendusk.org) Received: from ysera.fallendusk.org (ysera.fallendusk.org [76.76.101.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62ACC8FC0C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:21:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gt@fallendusk.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.gogax.com [127.0.0.1]) by ysera.fallendusk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE7A28423 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:21:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fallendusk.org Received: from ysera.fallendusk.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ysera.fallendusk.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cH9iNnai+MaD for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elune.fallendusk.org (unknown [99.32.39.87]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gt@fallendusk.org) by ysera.fallendusk.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CBCDF2841E for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:21:07 -0400 From: Gregory T Helton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090713092107.7b8607df@elune.fallendusk.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: fallenDUSK X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.4; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install from a USB Pen 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: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:21:16 -0000 On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:02:54 +0100 Mark Wallbank 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.