From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 22 06:17:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23904106564A; Fri, 22 May 2009 06:17:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879D98FC14; Fri, 22 May 2009 06:17:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4M6HT9i092644 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 May 2009 15:47:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:47:18 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1822001.IoynI4FbPK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905221547.27453.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.508 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Randy Bush , hackers@freebsd.org, Dario Freni Subject: Re: Installation from USB pen X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 06:17:33 -0000 --nextPart1822001.IoynI4FbPK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 22 May 2009, Randy Bush wrote: > i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting. but i > can not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system > image loads. > > do i have to back off to 7 and then upgrade forward after install? I don't believe you can install from UFS unless you mount it first and=20 then tell it to do an FS install. I have a 7.x based USB installer that is split in 2 - half FAT32 half=20 UFS and it works. Having half FAT32 is handy if you need to edit/add stuff from Windows.=20 It does make it a PITA to build the install key though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1822001.IoynI4FbPK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKFkN35ZPcIHs/zowRAuA3AJ0TC8kWInVvIENlWUqVAlIQj8vHzwCbBK2Y mtUZUkwMJvM5wAILUOudVzE= =KPk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1822001.IoynI4FbPK--