Can't install FreeBSD 6.1 on DL145 G2
Jan Mikkelsen
janm at transactionware.com
Wed Nov 8 07:45:16 UTC 2006
Hi Tony,
> Hi, Jan. Thanks for the reply.
>
> I think I've found the problem.
>
> I'm using a USB CD-ROM to install, and it seems to hit a bug with FreeBSD
> (#85257).
>
> I've tried to burn the ISO to my Sandisk Cruzer 2GB thumb drive and boot
> from it, but it never seems to boot. It just hangs with a blinking
> cursor.
>
> My server has no internal CD-ROM drive, and floppy support (I have a USB
> floppy drive) doesn't seem to work with the amd64 distro.
>
> I'm kind of stuck now.
>
> Any ideas on any front? :)
You can boot off a USB key, you just need to put something other than an ISO
image on it. A UFS filesystem and a bootblock is probably a good idea.
However, the easiest thing to do is probably to set up a pxeboot server and
boot off an NFS image. For example:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html
Regards,
Jan.
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