Hello Matthias, * Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm preparing the installation of FreeBSD 7.0 on an Asus eeePC which has > no CD/DVD drive for the installation (and I have no external CD driver > with USB): > http://www.laptoppen.nl/product-260-Asus-EEE-PC-900-Zwart.html > > My idea is to 'copy' somehow the FreeBSD 7.0 installation disk1 to an > USB stick of 1 GByte; there is some kind of recipe how to put a boot-able > system onto such an USB stick, like; > http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/msg/5c759b1c87376b22 > but this is not what I want; I want to boot the stick (of course) and > run the 'sysinstall' having the complete disk1 on the stick; > > maybe it is an option making only the file system on the stick and the > boot sector and fill in a dump of the file system of disk1, with some > minor changes that after booting it uses the USB as CD device? > > any other ideas?
You could consider installing FreeBSD by hand. Just make sure you
get a bootable FreeBSD system on that USB stick and do this:
bsdlabel -w -B /dev/ad0 # assuming ad0 is the eeepc flash
# just do bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0 if you want to add multiple slices
for i in a d e f g ... # any partitions you have
do
newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad0$i
done
# mount all your partitions in /new
mkdir /new
mount /dev/ad0a /new
mkdir /new/var
mount /dev/ad0d /var
# make sure you have the `base' and `kernels' directories on
# your USB stick and do this:
cd /X.Y-RELEASE/base
DESTDIR=/new sh install.sh
cd ../kernels
DESTDIR=/new sh install.sh generic
mv /boot/GENERIC/* /boot/kernel/
# create a /etc/fstab file
vi /etc/fstab
Good luck!
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Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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