On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:36:20AM +0000, A Y wrote: > Hi all, > 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? > 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 > Thank you
Strange. I think 'disk' should be among the possible set locations. What kind of machine is this? Use the shell for some diagnostics. Check your dmesg. Does the install kernel (bsd.rd) detect the flash drive? Check what "sysctl hw.disknames" says. It seems the USB disk is not detected even though BIOS and boot(8) manages to boot the kernel. If so there might be BIOS options that can help e.g setting the disks to AHCI mode, depending on what kind of machine this is. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
