Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:15:11 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Paul Halliday <dp@dove.penix.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install from hard disk. Message-ID: <20031102091511.GA73745@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031101194243.R34746@dove.penix.org> References: <20031101194243.R34746@dove.penix.org>
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Paul Halliday wrote:
> I have two drives in my pc164. What do i need to put on the second drive
> in order to use it as the installation media? I have tried dd'ing the
> floppy images to the second hard drive but this doesnt work. Any pointers?
Generally you need to copy the 'release' area from one of the FTP
sites -- so, for 4.9-RELEASE on i386, you'ld copy the stuff from under:
ftp.freebsd.org://pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/
That should also be what appears inside the installer iso images,
which is an alternate place you could copy what you need from.
Note: this *won't* make the 2nd drive bootable as an install system.
You'll have to use the floppy or CDRoms to boot from still.
Note2: Not sure exactly how much of the stuff under is strictly
necessary to do an install. You'll have to experiment.
Cheers,
Matthew
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