Re: 8.1 memstick installation
2010/8/23 Morgan Wesströmfreebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz: On 2010-08-23 19:34, Friedemann Becker wrote: Hello, I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation image) on usb-stick. Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, or any hacked versions of it? And how do turn this stick in a running system? Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) Thanks in advance Check my old message on how to do this in FreeBSD 7.2. The same instructions should work for 8.1 too, just change the version references. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/201928.html /Morgan On 2010-08-26 13:52, Friedemann Becker wrote: Thanks a lot, this seems to work. Is there any chance to get this into the faq or handbook? It's seems way more usefull to me than a live-CD. Best thing would be putting it into sysinstall, but maybe this is not reallistic. Best regards, Friedemann For the archives - below I've updated my installation guide to work with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, GPT and ZFS if anyone finds it useful. Make sure your usb memory stick is empty and unpartitioned, then plug it in and boot from the FreeBSD DVD. Select your country and keyboard layout. Enter the Fixit environment and use the live filesystem on your DVD. Your usb memory stick will most likely be da0 but you can (and should) check it with camcontrol devlist before you continue. Create a new GPT partitioning scheme: # gpart create -s gpt da0 Create a 64KiB partition for the zfs bootcode starting at LBA 1920: # gpart add -b 1920 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot da0 Create a zfs partition spanning the remainder of the usb memory stick and give it a label we can refer to: # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l FreeBSDonUSB da0 (The starting LBA for the first partition is there to align the partitions to the flash memory's erase block size. This is particularly important for the main zfs partition. The main partition above will start at exactly 1MiB (LBA 2048) which will align it to any erase block size used today. This alignment is also of great importance if you use this guide to install FreeBSD to one of the newer harddrives using 4096 byte sectors.) Install the protective MBR to LBA 0 and the zfs bootcode to the first partition: # gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0 Create /boot/zfs (for zpool.cache) and load the zfs kernel modules: # mkdir /boot/zfs # kldload /dist/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko # kldload /dist/boot/kernel/zfs.ko Create a zfs pool and set its bootfs property: # zpool create zrootusb /dev/gpt/FreeBSDonUSB # zpool set bootfs=zrootusb zrootusb Switch to fletcher4 checksums and turn off access time modifications: # zfs set checksum=fletcher4 zrootusb # zfs set atime=off zrootusb Extract at a minimum, base and the generic kernel: # cd /dist/8.1-RELEASE/base # DESTDIR=/zrootusb ./install.sh # cd ../kernels # DESTDIR=/zrootusb ./install.sh generic Delete the empty, default kernel directory and move the generic kernel into its place: # rmdir /zrootusb/boot/kernel # mv /zrootusb/boot/GENERIC /zrootusb/boot/kernel Make sure the zfs modules are loaded at boot: # echo 'zfs_load=YES' /zrootusb/boot/loader.conf # echo 'vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:zrootusb' \ /zrootusb/boot/loader.conf Create /etc/rc.conf. Adjust and add to your own needs: # echo 'ifconfig_DEFAULT=DHCP' /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf # echo 'hostname=freebsd' /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf # echo 'keymap=swedish.iso' /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf # echo 'ntpdate_enable=YES' /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf # echo 'sshd_enable=YES' /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf # echo 'zfs_enable=YES' /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf Setup your time zone: # cp /zrootusb/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Stockholm \ /zrootusb/etc/localtime Create an empty fstab to avoid startup warnings: # touch /zrootusb/etc/fstab Set the root password in the new environment: # cd # chroot /zrootusb /bin/sh # passwd root # exit Copy zpool.cache: # cp /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /zrootusb/boot/zfs Unmount the filesystem and set its mountpoint: # zfs unmount -a # zfs set mountpoint=legacy zrootusb Exit SYSINSTALL and reboot. You now have a fully functional and bootable FreeBSD installation on your usb memory stick. Regards Morgan Wesström ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any
Re: 8.1 memstick installation
Check my old message on how to do this in FreeBSD 7.2. The same instructions should work for 8.1 too, just change the version references. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/201928.html /Morgan Thanks a lot, this seems to work. Is there any chance to get this into the faq or handbook? It's seems way more usefull to me than a live-CD. Best thing would be putting it into sysinstall, but maybe this is not reallistic. Best regards, Friedemann You're welcome. I'm not on the FreeBSD developer's team so I can't answer your questions about the FAQ. There is however a wiki at freebsd.org and I could ofc provide an article there if the developers find it useful. Sysinstall is simply put just a frontend to the commands I use in the guide and you could accomplish the exact same install thorugh it if you change the default options. But I find it much easier to do this basic install manually instead of navigating through several pages of menus. :-) /Morgan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.1 memstick installation
Hello, I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation image) on usb-stick. Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, or any hacked versions of it? And how do turn this stick in a running system? Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) Thanks in advance -- Gesendet von meinem Mobilgerät ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 memstick installation
On 2010-08-23 19:34, Friedemann Becker wrote: Hello, I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation image) on usb-stick. Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, or any hacked versions of it? And how do turn this stick in a running system? Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) Thanks in advance Check my old message on how to do this in FreeBSD 7.2. The same instructions should work for 8.1 too, just change the version references. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/201928.html /Morgan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 memstick installation
On 8/23/10 1:34 PM, Friedemann Becker wrote: Hello, I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation image) on usb-stick. Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, or any hacked versions of it? And how do turn this stick in a running system? Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) You can try UnxUtils, from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/ dd.exe is included. (I haven't tested making a bootable memory stick on a Windows machine). Regards (and let me know if it works), -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 memstick installation
Friedemann Becker wrote: Hello, I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation image) on usb-stick. Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, or any hacked versions of it? And how do turn this stick in a running system? Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) Thanks in advance http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361 http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4389 https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
