On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:36:20AM +0000, A Y wrote: > I used the following command to create a USB flash drive installation media > (with all file sets included): > # dd if=/location/install56.fs of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m > The USB flash drive was created successfully. > The boot process from the USB was done. However, when we came to installing > file sets, the following prompt was displayed: > Location of sets? (disk http or 'done') [http] > Now, what can I do to direct the installation process to look for the file > sets in the USB flash drive?
Unless I'm very mistaken, you should choose disk at that question. The next question will be something like "Is the disk already mounted?" Answer no. Then the installer shows you the list of drives that are not mounted. Choose the one that corresponds to your USB drive with your dd'ed the installer image. The next prompt should take you back to FAQ 4.5.4 to to go through the rest of the install. > The documentation says: > "Once the install kernel is booted, you have several options of where to get > the install file sets: > CD-ROM, HTTP, Local disk partition, NFS" (no mention to USB) > As adviced, I did the following from the shell: > cd /devsh MAKEDEV sd1 mkdir /mnt1mount /dev/sd1a /mnt1 > But I got the following error: > Device not configured What platform are you using? On amd64 sata drives tend to turn up as sd-something (sd0 through whatever), but if you're on i386, you may see them turn up as wd-something (wd0 through whatever), while your USB drive still most likely turns up as sd0 - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
