Installation from USB pen

[Dario Freni]

Brooks Davis ha scritto:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:58:46AM +0100, Dario Freni wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> attached a tiny script to convert a FreeBSD install iso image to a
>> binary ufs image ready to be flashed e.g. on an USB pendrive.
>>
>> The size of the ufs image is calculated from the iso one. The usage for
>> the script is quite simple:
>>
>> ./fbsd-install-iso2img.sh iso-path img-path
>>
>> Once you're done, you can dd the img directly to an USB pen. If you also
>> want to make a serial-console install image just set the serial variable
>> on top of the script to 1.
>>
>> This script is derived from another similar one that I made for the
>> pfSense project. It was requested for those kind of systems which have
>> an usb port booting-capable and a serial console.
>>
>> I hope you'll find it useful. Bye,
> 
> Way cool!  We've to tons of boxes that are a complete pain is the ass to
> install on via CD, this will save tons of time.  Obviously, it would be
> better it we made one of these as part of the release build and put it
> on the ftp site, but this is a hugh step in the right direction.
> 
> One minor nit, you might want to put a check that the user is root at the
> top of the script since that is a requirement.
> 
>> P.S.: beer-ware license
> 
> Are you going to be at BSDCan. :)

Hey! Thanks to Dan Langille and BSDCan I'm going to be there! :) I
definitely want my beer! :P

-- 
Dario Freni (saturnero at freesbie.org)
FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org)
GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc

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