USB Key Disk Boot

[Thyer, Matthew]

To install onto this device:

Simply boot your installation media (CD) and do your installing on the device "da0" (the first SCSI device - this is likely to be your USB Key unless you already have SCSI hard disk drives in your system).

As for booting, you will have to understand how to change your BIOS to ensure the correct boot order.  Many BIOS's will boot on these devices if you have "USB-ZIP" as the first boot device.  If that doesn't work try "USB-HDD" or just "USB".

If your Key device is too small to accommodate a minimal install of FreeBSD then you will need to investigate the more embedded solutions such as PicoBSD.  This is an advanced topic which will require an experienced UNIX specialist to implement.  You may be able to find various how-to type procedures on the Web and the FreeBSD handbook should be very useful but this is not something for the fainthearted.

As for the booting process, it is described in the manual page for "boot".


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