From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 08:52:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E481065673 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:52:34 +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 B499B8FC19 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:52:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-62-238.lns11.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.62.238]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4F8qUF6049615 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 15 May 2008 18:22:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:22:41 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <482B96F5.8030800@miralink.com> In-Reply-To: <482B96F5.8030800@miralink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200805151822.43236.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Sean Bruno Subject: Re: USB Install Method 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: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:52:34 -0000 --nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 15 May 2008, Sean Bruno wrote: > Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 7 install method for those of > us without CD/DVD Rom drives? > > The easiest way for me would be to boot off of a USB stick and then > install across the network, but I'm open to suggestions. The simplest way would be to get a USB CDROM drive. Note that it is likely you will need a version of FreeBSD released after=20 this commit.. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S?rev= =3D1.46 Unfortunately as of today it will only be in a -current snapshot :( eg ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200805 You might be lucky and it will work but if not you will find the loader=20 crashes (eg spins really fast writing register dumps to the screen..) It is fairly straight forward to create a USB key with FreeBSD on it but=20 it requires a FreeBSD system to create it.. http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stic= k-episode-2 (I haven't actually tried this but it looks OK - I have done it with=20 =46reesBIE 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 --nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIK/nb5ZPcIHs/zowRAjNCAJ9TP0j7Ea5iVkvG6ZW3JsWCMbCalgCfeSuh hdb2HCxYZnQrR3H7mzsQu9A= =JeGl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2457858.rKG57SD6G7--