Install OS from UDF for VBox

[Paul Kraus]

On Jun 30, 2015, at 14:02, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Paul Kraus <paul at kraus-haus.org> writes:
> 
>> An additional bit of info … if I put the DVD in the drive and use the
>> VBox passthrough driver I can install from the DVD. I do not have DVD
>> drives on all the host systems though.
> 
> Have you tried md(4)?
> 
> Something like "mdconfig -a -t vnode -f udf-image-file" should do it.

Yup, tried that. I found the forum thread that included this solution but it did not work. The VM did not find the boot block on the VMDK of the md of the ISO image.

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Paul Kraus
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