Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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,
Yes, that should work. Just prepare the USB stick so it is bootable (fdisk(1), bsdlabel(8)), put a UFS file system on it (newfs(8)), then extract the contents of the "disk1" ISO image onto the file system. You can use tar for that: # cd /mnt ; tar xf /tmp/disk1.iso > with some minor changes that after booting it uses the USB as CD device? No, I don't think that's possible. And it's not necessary. sysinstall can install from a normal UFS partition. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
