From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 05:10:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A701065670 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:10:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8848FC26 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:10:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([202.69.172.49]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:08:34 -0700 Message-ID: <4A5D6453.3060100@a1poweruser.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:08:35 +0800 From: Fbsd1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randi Harper References: <4A5BEABB.6070802@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jul 2009 05:08:35.0051 (UTC) FILETIME=[4E0913B0:01CA050A] X-Sender: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mark Wallbank Subject: Re: Install from a USB Pen X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:10:31 -0000 > > ... or you could just download an official image instead of going to all > of that trouble. Check the FTP site, there's a memstick.img if you're > down for using with 8 instead of 7. There are currently three PRs about > this, and I recently took ownership of them. Filing duplicate bug > reports doesn't "get attention", it's just annoying and it makes trying > to improve sysinstall that much more difficult because I'll have to > spend more time closing these duplicates and less time fixing problems. > There has been an email that stated there is USB install support in > sysinstall as of 8.0 BETA1, and USB livefs support as of 8.0 BETA2. The > PRs for USB support in sysinstall will be updated and closed soon. Don't > open new ones. > > You're welcome! :D > > -- randi What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk?