On 24 April 2011 14:01, Zoran Kolic <zko...@sbb.rs> wrote: > > But with the BSDs? > > Not a chance! > > With FreeBSD and PC-BSD it is dropped at the USB register stage of both > the > > install and all consequent boots after O.S. install - so it's in the > > mothercode. > > I assume the topic is on install to the hdd? Not using usb > hard drive as a storage? >
Not quite. With this set-up, I wanted the home partition on the external drive. > It all depends on the possibility to boot from mobo via usb > device. Some older boards are not prone to let it go. That is a potential candidate, because allthe installs mentione were on a laptop - HP nx6120 - which is now almost six years old. > Almost > all modern do the trick. During install process, you could > choose hard drive you want to install to and where you want > boot loader to reside. > If used as a storage device, usb hdd is just fine as it shows > in /dev directory. Freebsd has dynamic /dev and, after some > time, it is there as dax or daxsy (aka da0 or da0s1). Then > you could mount it with something like: > mount_msdosfs -l /dev/da0 /my_directory > This was the problem. It showed up nowhere. If it had, I would have been able to mount it somehow, but I couldn't because as far as the O.S. was concerned, it didn't exist. With Debian, no problem! I'm writing to it now. But no chance with BSD. > In my case, I found that some cheap enclosures are not able to > boot from mobo, but some integrated, branded, are. If you > know the exact number, search forums for "boot linux usb hdd" > or similar. > Best regards > Thanks, Zoran. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion.
