Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:08 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Karel Miklav <karel.miklav@siol.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE Installation Message-ID: <d7195cff0601192136s46c1e044sf77e1e914f105e29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43D04CBF.6050802@siol.net> References: <43D04CBF.6050802@siol.net>
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On 1/19/06, Karel Miklav <karel.miklav@siol.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 to a sub-notebook without > floppy or optical unit. First I tried to install FreeBSD to > a USB memory stick, boot notebook from there and do sysinstall > on a local drive. It didn't work. I was able to partition > the drive but couldn't write any data. Sysinstall installed > everything back to the memory stick no matter what. > > Now I'm doing it with PXE, If you can boot from the usb drive, why not do a bit of a brutish install: dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 bs=3D1024k count=3D10 bsdlabel -Bw ad0 (or whatever your internal disk is) bsdlabel -e ad0 (edit partition entries here) newfs -U -O2 /dev/ad0a (and others) swapon /dev/ad0b mount /dev/ad0a /mnt mount /dev/ad0d /mnt/var (and so on) pax -r -w -p e -X /* /mnt (might want to man pax) ditto for subdirs if they're not all on the same device edit your fstab to reflect changes and reboot? Did I miss a bunch of stuff?
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