install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition

[Chris Whitehouse]

Jay Chandler wrote:
> Simeon Nifos wrote:
>> Dear FreeBSD users,
>> We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes 
>> time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it 
>> is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is 
>> provided it takes time to install. I was wondering if anyone of you 
>> ever managed to "write" somehow the isos on a USB hard-disk or 
>> USB-flash partition and perform the installation from there. Be 
>> careful, I am not saying to install FreeBSD on a USB drive, I am 
>> asking if it is possible to transfer somehow the isos on the USB 
>> hard-drive or USB-flash drive and then boot from it as if I was 
>> booting from the FreeBSD CD iso and perform the installation of 
>> FreeBSD on my hard disk. I hope that if this is achieved somehow, the 
>> installation will spead up significantly.
>> So is it possible?
>>
>> Best,
>> Archwn.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 
> 1. What are you installing off the second CD?
> 
> 2. A 1 CD install takes all of ten minutes; how much faster were you 
> hoping for it to get?
> 

3. Someone posted this link the other day to make a DVD iso...

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html


Chris