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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: Restaging from scratch
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:16:35 -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
>> If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the
>> filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would
>> appreciate it!
>
> Obtain a CD or DVD image, or a USB stick image, and create
> the media as explained in The FreeBSD Handbook. Booting
> should not be harder than inserting the media into the
> appropriate slot of the machine. :-)
>
> For initializing disks with gpart I found Warren Block's
> article very helpful:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
>
> There are also sections covering the topic both in The
> FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ, but this article is a
> very good "concentrate".

Aw shucks; thanks.

For a USB bootable FreeBSD, mfsBSD is more capable than the install 
CD/USB: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/