Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34>>
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical
drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a
messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg55434.html)
about just such a thing. The script provided converts the CD image into
one suitable for a flashmemory stick. I used and coverted it without
issue. The instructions say to use dd to prepare the flash drive so
executed
#dd if=flashbsd.iso of=/dev/da0
I'm not entirely confident that that was the correct procedure, as I'm
quite unfamilar with dd. Unfortunetly, I can't seem to get the drive to
boot. I can mount the filesystem so it seems that prepareing the drive
was succesful. I'm using a via chipset and yes, the bios is set to boot
from USB-FDD. I used the 6.2 boot only image.
Thanks for any insight you can provide me.
Ross
That seems correct to me. You may want to 'bsdlabel -B /dev/da0' after
writing the ufs image to it. The script you referenced does this to the
image before you write it to the flash drive, so the boot code should
already be there... but it appears to have gotten lost.
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