Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:10:36 -0700 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: "freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Silly Sysinstall Tricks, redux Message-ID: <AANLkTilI41c0ki03MPHHpyXtGt5eTSepYELDWHg-Lt1F@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1278694522.2436.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1278694522.2436.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > 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 > So, the way I did the USB stuff was a dirty, dirty hack. It looks for da0a (or c, i can't recall). Eventually, this is going away. But the jist of it is that you have to dd the memstick to da0, not a slice. :( Someday (soon, hopefully) we'll be using labels for install media. -- randi
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