From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 13:07:45 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 5DE25106568A for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.17.241.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3798FC19 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:07:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m5JCa3ma078446; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:36:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m5JCa3Fo078445; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:36:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:36:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200806191236.m5JCa3Fo078445@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthias Apitz In-Reply-To: <20080619082740.GA3700@rebelion.Sisis.de> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:36:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: moving FreeBSD installation disk1 to an USB stick X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthias Apitz List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:07:45 -0000 Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm preparing the installation of FreeBSD 7.0 on an Asus eeePC which has > no CD/DVD drive for the installation (and I have no external CD driver > with USB): > http://www.laptoppen.nl/product-260-Asus-EEE-PC-900-Zwart.html > > My idea is to 'copy' somehow the FreeBSD 7.0 installation disk1 to an > USB stick of 1 GByte; there is some kind of recipe how to put a boot-able > system onto such an USB stick, like; > http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/msg/5c759b1c87376b22 > but this is not what I want; I want to boot the stick (of course) and > run the 'sysinstall' having the complete disk1 on the stick; > > maybe it is an option making only the file system on the stick and the > boot sector and fill in a dump of the file system of disk1, Yes, that should work. Just prepare the USB stick so it is bootable (fdisk(1), bsdlabel(8)), put a UFS file system on it (newfs(8)), then extract the contents of the "disk1" ISO image onto the file system. You can use tar for that: # cd /mnt ; tar xf /tmp/disk1.iso > with some minor changes that after booting it uses the USB as CD device? No, I don't think that's possible. And it's not necessary. sysinstall can install from a normal UFS partition. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell