From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 06:24:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABB816A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:24:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB63943D3F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:24:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 86F9D18408B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:23:25 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id 7994C184073 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:23:25 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E38518400B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:23:25 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id 2958317F17; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:01 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A0F17F13; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:00 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CO98C-0002GP-00; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:00 +0800 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:00 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: JT In-Reply-To: <008f01c4bf0f$89a58fc0$070a0a0a@JTUFFIN> Message-ID: References: <008f01c4bf0f$89a58fc0$070a0a0a@JTUFFIN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: David Adam X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (144/041030) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Key Disk Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:24:04 -0000 > I am looking to run a minimal FreeBSD build on a USB key disk as a network monitoring system, but I am having great difficulty getting information on how to do so. FreeBSD is my preferred *nix OS, but if I am not able to get a USB boot solution in a reasonable time, I will have to move my project to a Linux based solution as there are already Linux USB boot systems out there. > > All assistance is appreciated. I think that even if I could get some info on the BSD bootup sequence/etc I might be able to build something workable. I believe there is currently code in the FreeSBIE CVS that allows you to install FreeSBIE (which is a FreeBSD 'live CD' distribution) onto any target device - including pen drives. http://www.freesbie.org/ Note that this ability is *not* in FreeSBIE 1.0 or 20040919. You will need to check the code out of CVS. Instructions are on this page: http://www.freesbie.org/?section=cvs-en Hope you get it working. I'm sure the freesbie@gufi.org team will be happy to help you out if you have problems. They also hang out on IRC, irc://irc.azzurra.org/freesbie . Cheers, David Adam --- zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au