How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 25 22:32:38 PDT 2005


Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob wrote:
> 
>>I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte.
>> I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows
>> booting from USB memory-stick.
>>
>>Is this possible with FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> Yes.

Great!

>>If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a
>> USB memory stick, so that it becomes a 'bootable
>> USB'?
> 
> By installing a FreeBSD base system on it (approx.
> 170 MB) and a boot loader, and setting your BIOS
> to boot from "USB legacy device".

Hmmm, how do I do that?
After a system and kernel build, is it then
something like 'make installworld' and 'make
installkernel' into non-default destinations
(i.e. mount-point of the USB stick) ?

I suppose one GigaByte should be enough for
the base system of 5.4, isn't it?

Rob.



	
		
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