FreeBSD USB Install

Brian McCann bjmccann at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 11:36:03 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Scott <chris.scott at uk.tiscali.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Ditch sysinstall and follow this
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> http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-
> stick-episode-2
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> 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)
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Firing that up now...I'll post the results.  I tried this some time
ago and it wouldn't work...but that could have been me doing something
wrong or the PC didn't support booting from USB.

Thanks, I'll let ya know!
--Brian

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