Al Plant wrote:
Aloha Gurus.
All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on
installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default
partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it
like the hd inside.
I see plenty of how-to's on loading Flash sticks for installing on other
boxes and using a 2 slice flash to load FreeBSD onto other duplicate
boxes again.
All I need is to have a FreeBSD o/s on the stick so I can use it
instead of the OS on the existing laptop.
I'm sure I saw on this list where somebody did this successfully but I
cant find it.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi Al
The way i have done this in 7.0 7.1 and 7.2 is to boot off the cd1
install cd and do a normal install to my 1gb flash stick. A 1gb flash
stick is to small for the default slice sizes. You will have to manually
allocate the / /usr /var /swap sizes. I also found it usefully to set
the boot flag when allocating the whole flash stick. A 2gb or larger
flash stick allows you to take the auto-allocate option for / /usr /var
/swap sizes. Keep in mind that your /var log files can fill up you flash
stick real quick and lock up your system. If your running this flash
stick 7/24 then rotate them more often deleting the oldest one. It's as
simple as that.
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