Re: Install from a USB Pen (semi OT)

2009-07-22 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Ken Smith wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 11:41 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads

Re: Install from a USB Pen (semi OT)

2009-07-22 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: Just curious, but is there an easy way to get all of this onto the pen in the first place? I missed the origin of the thread. dd if=image file of=usb drive bs=10240 conv=sync -- randi

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-22 Thread Fbsd1
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-20 Thread Ken Smith
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 11:41 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no compression of the data.

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-19 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-17 Thread Fbsd1
Randi Harper wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-17 Thread Fbsd1
Fbsd1 wrote: dd if=8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 worked I used my laptop to boot from the usb memstick. The 8.0 sysinstall started right up but it has problems. In this test i am booting off a 2gb usb memstick containing the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img and installing on a

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Randi Harper
On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0 BETA(s). Use dd, a

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Fbsd1
Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk?

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-14 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Mark Wallbank wrote: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-14 Thread Fbsd1
... or you could just download an official image instead of going to all of that trouble. Check the FTP site, there's a memstick.img if you're down for using with 8 instead of 7. There are currently three PRs about this, and I recently took ownership of them. Filing duplicate bug reports

Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-13 Thread Mark Wallbank
OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to create the image or do a net (pxe) install from another NIX serverbut it does seem to be a bit

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-13 Thread Gregory T Helton
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:02:54 +0100 Mark Wallbank mrkwll...@googlemail.com wrote: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to create the

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-13 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Seg, 2009-07-13 às 13:02 +0100, Mark Wallbank escreveu: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to create the image or do a net

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-13 Thread pp
Mark Wallbank wrote: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to create the image or do a net (pxe) install from another NIX serverbut

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-13 Thread Fbsd1
Mark Wallbank wrote: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to create the image or do a net (pxe) install from another NIX serverbut it