Hi, Ditch sysinstall and follow this http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb- stick-episode-2 glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the situation when you get boot failures when you try to boot off ur usb disk on a machine that has scsi drives (da0 wont be the usb drive)