FreeBSD USB Install
Ricardo Jesus
ricardo.meb.jesus at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 08:44:24 PST 2009
Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió:
>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, "Brian McCann" <bjmccann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb
>>>> drive, but every time I try it fails. sysinstall says "Unable to make
>>>> new root filesystem on /dev/da0s1a1. Command returned status 38".
>>>> When I switch to the debug console, I get "cg 0: bad magic number".
>>>> This thumb drive was being used on my Windows machine previously, then
>>>> I re-formatted it as UFS to use it on a FreeBSD machine...so I know
>>>> the thumb drive itself works. Can someone shed some light on this
>>>> problem?
>>> I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the
>>> thumb drive (such as it was a new "disk" right from the factory)
>>> and let sysinstall put slice and partitions onto it.
>> The problem is that 'from the factory' sometimnes they come already Windows-like
>> formated; I've wiped out all with:
>>
>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m
>>
>> (double check that /dev/da0 is really the device you want to clean)
>
> sysinstall will provide you an option to erase any existing 'partitions'
> that exist on the drive during install, so the 'dd' is redundant.
>
> I've never installed directly to a thumbdrive before. Normally I'd
> install to a hard disk, pear it down, and then effectively copy the
> system to the thumb drive manually. I end up with a system as such (so I
> don't need a hard disk):
>
> router# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0a 939M 410M 454M 47% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/md0 31M 20K 28M 0% /tmp
> /dev/md1 15M 36K 14M 0% /var/run
> /dev/md2 31M 318K 28M 1% /var/log
> /tmp 31M 20K 28M 0% /var/tmp
>
> That said, installing to a USB disk through sysinstall should
> technically (AFAIK) be no different than installing to a standard SCSI
> hard disk (da0).
>
> What options are you supplying when you reach the 'FDISK Partition
> Editor' screen?
>
> Also, if you are installing the system via sysinstall that is running on
> an already installed FreeBSD, you must use the 'w' option before 'q'.
> Quit within the disk editor while running under FreeBSD does not imply
> 'write'. (This being opposed to booting from a CD to install).
>
> Steve
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I've installed 7.0 on an USB IDE drive last week. At the time the USB
drive had a Linux distro on it which I destroyed, place the install CD
on the CD drive, selected boot from USB, the drive showed up on
sysinstall, and performed a pretty standard FreeBSD install.
Regards.
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