Installing from USB Flash Drive

[Ross Penner]

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical  
drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a  
messages from hackers at freebsd.org  
(http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg55434.html)  
about just such a thing. The script provided converts the CD image into  
one suitable for a flashmemory stick. I used  and coverted it without  
issue. The instructions say to use dd to prepare the flash drive so  
executed
#dd if=flashbsd.iso of=/dev/da0
I'm not entirely confident that that was the correct procedure, as I'm  
quite unfamilar with dd. Unfortunetly, I can't seem to get the drive to  
boot. I can mount the filesystem so it seems that prepareing the drive was  
succesful. I'm using a via chipset and yes, the bios is set to boot from  
USB-FDD. I used the 6.2 boot only image.

Thanks for any insight you can provide me.

Ross

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