Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:31:15 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter <noc@hdk5.net> To: Christer Hermansson <mail@chdevelopment.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting to Sysinstall Message-ID: <46F88103.5040400@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <46F842FF.8040002@chdevelopment.se> References: <74C0DBE7-41EA-42FA-AE01-D82A9FAE3162@optusnet.com.au> <46F842FF.8040002@chdevelopment.se>
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Christer Hermansson wrote: > 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. > I use the attach a CD Rom method on many servers I have built and it works fine unless the HD is too big for the bios on the motherboard. Sometimes you can load FreeBSD 7 on an HD on another box successfully, but if the bios on the box it ends up on will not let it run if the HD is too big. There are several options. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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