Booting to Sysinstall

[Christer Hermansson]

Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Okay so here is the situation:
> Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to 
> install FreeBSD
> on it.
>
> The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a 
> cd into, set it
> to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot up into sysinstall.
>
> Would this be possible? Or is it a dumb idea?

Boot from usb-memory
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 


or use pxe
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html 


However I would choose to connect a CD-player
or
move the harddisk to some other machine that have a CD and do the 
install and then move the harddisk back.

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Christer Hermansson