Booting to Sysinstall
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noc at hdk5.net
Mon Sep 24 20:31:17 PDT 2007
Christer Hermansson wrote:
> 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.
>
I use the attach a CD Rom method on many servers I have built and it
works fine unless the HD is too big for the bios on the motherboard.
Sometimes you can load FreeBSD 7 on an HD on another box successfully,
but if the bios on the box it ends up on will not let it run if the HD
is too big.
There are several options.
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