FBSD1 wrote:
There is a outstanding PR on sysinstall from usb flash drive which is now
over a year old. The sysinstall install program needs to be updated to use
usb drives as the source of the install media. You could always edit the
sysinstall program source code and make a patch to allow usb s
lh ${imgoutfile}
echo "### Script finished ###"
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Voth
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:52 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall
Is there no one out there that can help?
I've dug into NFS a little more and that does not appear to support
mounting a local filesystem under sysinstall.
In the following thread, Richard Tobin makes an assertion that suggests
that I might be able to mount my thumb drive's existing UFS partit
I've crafted a USB flash thumb drive containing a bootable UFS partition
containing the contents of 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso. It boots properly
and sysinstall runs as expected, so I'm all set to install FreeBSD to a
system that has no optical drive. Just as "fbsd2" in the following
thread, I
