From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 20 15:28:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A6A16A400 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arussell@agrussell.com) Received: from bifrost.agrussell.com (bifrost.hos.net [204.251.33.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE12243D55 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arussell@agrussell.com) Received: from bifrost.agrussell.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bifrost.agrussell.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2KFSpxP004627 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:28:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from arussell@agrussell.com) Received: (from arussell@localhost) by bifrost.agrussell.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k2KFSpZI004626 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:28:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from arussell) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:28:51 -0600 From: "A.G. Russell IV" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060320152851.GA4545@bifrost.agrussell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:40:31 +0000 Subject: creating install media on usb drive 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: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:55 -0000 Hi, I'm wanting to create a custom install on a 1gb USB thumb drive. I've done an install to the the USB thumb drive using the a option to use the entire disk, and then labeled one slice using entire disk, leaving no space for swap, and installed the "Minimal" FreeBSD install. The drive boots and works beautifully, able to customize, and run. I have already used it for recovery of a failed install. Next I removed the contents of the drive, cpio'ed the contents of the 5.4-i386 iso disc1. I then copied in the driver for my raid array, and modified boot/defaults/loader.conf to load the driver. The drive boots and configures the system, but when I try to tell it were to install from, I can't seem to be able to tell sysinstall where the install media is. I've tried setting the install to filesystem and / and no media is found. I've googled, and searched the freebsd mailing archives. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. A.G. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ A.G. Russell IV KC5KFD The Knife Company e-mail: ag4 @ theknifecompany.com Phone 479-631-0055 FAX 479-631-8734 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------