Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:06:39 +0200 From: Christer Hermansson <mail@chdevelopment.se> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting to Sysinstall Message-ID: <46F842FF.8040002@chdevelopment.se> In-Reply-To: <74C0DBE7-41EA-42FA-AE01-D82A9FAE3162@optusnet.com.au> References: <74C0DBE7-41EA-42FA-AE01-D82A9FAE3162@optusnet.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: > Hello, > > Okay so here is the situation: > Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to > install FreeBSD > on it. > > The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a > cd into, set it > to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot up into sysinstall. > > Would this be possible? Or is it a dumb idea? Boot from usb-memory http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 or use pxe http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html However I would choose to connect a CD-player or move the harddisk to some other machine that have a CD and do the install and then move the harddisk back. -- Christer Hermansson
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46F842FF.8040002>