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Von: Which *BSD should I try?

Which *BSD should I try? — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:04:18 +0000

[...] a memstick install… but how do I install it to usb in linux? it says something about /dev/da0? http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freeb…h-a-usb-stick/ is there a floppy net-install for freebsd? the lappy has no cdrom and cant boot from usb without [...]

Von: Patrick Mahan

Patrick Mahan — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:48:01 +0000

I had to do the following to get FreeBSD 8.0 install to boot up on an ATCA-4500 platform:

% mount /dev/da0a /mnt/usb-stick
% cd /mnt/usb-stick
% echo “-P” >> boot.config

Otherwise, It hangs after the load menu. I’m wondering if I should have modified /boot/loader.conf to use the comconsole as it’s default?

Patrick

Von: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:15:49 +0000

tried this, a few years ago.

Unless something changed dramatically, your stick will have to be *much* larger than the original CD, since there is no way to recreate the hard links on the iso by copying. ISO does not know inode numbers, so the cd9660 driver creates them out of thin air. And it does not understand the hardlinking used on iso file systems.

Von: ColtonCat

ColtonCat — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:29:59 +0000

Or, you can just download the “memstick” image from http://freebsd.org then do the following

dd if=8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync

and you will achieve the same result. I guess the advantage of doing it the way in this post is that you can install from the DVD which has all the packages in.

Von: raw

raw — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:32:59 +0000

maybe this is about BOOT from usb-flash, not about INSTALL?

Von: raw

raw — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:59:07 +0000

I tried to repeat the process with 7.2 release and have no success…
If i do /dev/ufs/FreeBSD / ufs ro 0 0 on flash fstab, then FreeBSD starts from flash untill login prompt. Then if i do sysinstall – i have conflict of mountpoints
here is df -h:
/dev/ufs/FreeBSD /
and if we try to install to / – error write coz we have ufs ro mode.

so i tried another variant – /dev/ufs/FreeBSD /distr on flash fstab.
Here we go – installation script starts automatically, like from DVD, but when i select “Install from an existing filesystem” and set /distr as root of distribution – i have “Unable to transfer the base distribution from ufs”… What’s wrong with my hands?

Von: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:10:57 +0000

Hi fellas!
I was wondering how to make an USF2 filesystem?? Anyone who can explain? I’ve tried with GParted Live CD but it doesn’t support this format…
Holla at me

Von: tobé

tobé — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:41:06 +0000

Thanks you!

Von: Christofer

Christofer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:18:32 +0000

Thanks for the guide!

Von: Sylwester

Sylwester — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:49:42 +0000

@Andrew Lankford:

Actually the filesystem of the USB Thumb Drive is UFS.
Only the ISO-Image is cd9660.

Just thinking of making a custom USB release with
a customized graphical bootloader.

See http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader
for the BootLoader.