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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:11:48 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        JT <jtfbsd@jt.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB Key Disk Boot
Message-ID:  <41849034.8010506@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <008f01c4bf0f$89a58fc0$070a0a0a@JTUFFIN>
References:  <008f01c4bf0f$89a58fc0$070a0a0a@JTUFFIN>

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Hi,

it is not the same but it might be an option for you.

A German brought FreeBSD to a CF card:

http://devcorner.schlenker-webdesign.de/cms.24.html

It does not look like he has an English version of the text.

Erich

JT wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Has anyone already developed or had experience with getting FreeBSD to run off a USB key disk?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> JT
> jtfbsd@jt.net.au
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