On 1/19/06, Karel Miklav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 to a sub-notebook without > floppy or optical unit. First I tried to install FreeBSD to > a USB memory stick, boot notebook from there and do sysinstall > on a local drive. It didn't work. I was able to partition > the drive but couldn't write any data. Sysinstall installed > everything back to the memory stick no matter what. > > Now I'm doing it with PXE,
If you can boot from the usb drive, why not do a bit of a brutish install: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1024k count=10 bsdlabel -Bw ad0 (or whatever your internal disk is) bsdlabel -e ad0 (edit partition entries here) newfs -U -O2 /dev/ad0a (and others) swapon /dev/ad0b mount /dev/ad0a /mnt mount /dev/ad0d /mnt/var (and so on) pax -r -w -p e -X /* /mnt (might want to man pax) ditto for subdirs if they're not all on the same device edit your fstab to reflect changes and reboot? Did I miss a bunch of stuff? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
