From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 19:25:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D9F16A4DF for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:25:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from backyard1454-nospam@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73C7143D5E for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from backyard1454-nospam@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 24155 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2006 19:25:09 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hzk3LXxS8UVihMpXmuBv/adms6EGunE4sGnGqKI2GJkP2VCDX1ehbqECn7pctq5Je6T80KgCEeDB/p7CQ9ej8p4eUuFbu172ESjoIMejTN8LusOLhfr+sUTGqi436rfPMU+wDKrdRa1nX4cdubP72cGEkIm4KhEpiHFFPrX9KZ4= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.67?) (mckeon?brian@sbcglobal.net@75.19.99.98 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jul 2006 19:25:09 -0000 Message-ID: <44CBB3CC.1020809@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:15:24 -0400 From: Brian McKeon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Robul References: <20060714105532.GA46694@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> <20060714135947.85241.qmail@web81610.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060729174428.GA11134@sysadm.stc> In-Reply-To: <20060729174428.GA11134@sysadm.stc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot FreeBSD from USB external drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: backyard1454-nospam@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:25:12 -0000 Igor Robul wrote: >On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:59:47AM -0700, backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > >>just try running the installation cd with the USB >>device and see what happens. Make sure your setting it >>up on the right drive (da0 assuming you have IDE >>hardrives) >> >> >Not so good advice - flash memory has limited write count. Instead you >can look at Frenzy 1.0 and then use it as template. > >http://www.frenzy.org.ua/eng/ > >It has versions for CD and USB. >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > Fair enough, but if it was a USB Hard drive then my advice should be ok correct??? I'm just wondering because one of the yaks I gotta shave is making a bootable recovery system with one of my USB hardrives. Even with a flash disk you should be ok for 10,000 writes which should be adequate to bring up a test system to play around with. Although I will admit it isn't the most reliable system waiting for the transistors to go bad. brian