Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:55:22 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: "freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org> Subject: Silly Sysinstall Tricks, redux Message-ID: <1278694522.2436.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Karsten asked for a "proper bug report" so I'll try to comply. Setup: Partition a USB stick into 3 seperate partitions -- Part 1: VFAT, 128MB, Grub boot loader and related files -- Part 2: Empty partition, 1.2GB, no F/S -- Part 3: Empty partition, 1.2GB, no F/S Download the latest i386 and amd64 USB install images: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201006/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201006-amd64-memstick.img ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201006/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201006-i386-memstick.img I'm using 201006 for now as July hasn't appeared. dd the downloaded images to each of your empty partions as per common instructions: dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201006-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0s2 bs=10240 conv=sync dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201006-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0s3 bs=10240 conv=sync Setup your grub configuration to boot off of these images: e.g. title FreeBSD-CURRENT-i386 root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title FreeBSD-CURRENT-amd64 root (hd0,2) chainloader +1 Boot new system off of USB stick, at this point the system will boot normally and come up into the sysinstall menu. I can configure drives, select packages and things seem to work fine until the I get to the "select media from which to install" section where I can chose CD/DVD, FTP, HTTP, USB etc. Selecting USB install fails to find any media. Hence I *ass*ume that sysinstall doesn't understand that the media can have more than one partition and that I might want to use something other than da0s1 to use as my source of packages. Clear? Confusing? Nonsense? :-) Sean
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