From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 03:31:16 2007 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 EFA9316A417 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B871613C44B for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from [192.168.1.29] (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2838A5C1F; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:31:16 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <46F88103.5040400@hdk5.net> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:31:15 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 FreeBSD/i386 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christer Hermansson References: <74C0DBE7-41EA-42FA-AE01-D82A9FAE3162@optusnet.com.au> <46F842FF.8040002@chdevelopment.se> In-Reply-To: <46F842FF.8040002@chdevelopment.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Booting to Sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noc@hdk5.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:31:17 -0000 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