From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 17:08:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE023106566B for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:08:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout2-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com (mrout2-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.107.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DD48FC12 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cheese.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.50.99]) by mrout2-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/y.out) with ESMTP id o69GtMtq025141 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:55:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=serpent; d=yahoo-inc.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=subject:from:to:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version: x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=QQZirX9p9OautBu5xat1k9wS7qRShlCF06mwpwaz0TYQL2Y6nsmi0cx3fR/OsXfG From: Sean Bruno To: "freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:55:22 -0700 Message-ID: <1278694522.2436.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Silly Sysinstall Tricks, redux X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:08:15 -0000 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